Meanings
adjectiveorological (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleterareOf or pertaining to orology.
On leaving Switzerland, one of the most mountainous parts of the world, he sums up the general result of the orological observations he made there; which, backed and supported by Scheuchzer's map of Switzerland, led him to conclude, that the Helvetic mountains have no regular direction […]
1781, The Monthly Review, volume 65, page 553
Origin
Compare French orologique.
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Rhymes with orological
biologicallogicalpsychologicaltechnologicalgeologicaltheologicalarchaeologicalphysiologicalchronologicalneurologicalmeteorologicalsociologicaltopologicalpedagogicalastrologicalanthropologicalpharmacologicalillogicalhydrologicalimmunologicalmythologicalphonologicalhistologicalepistemological
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APA
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“orological.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orological. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “orological,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orological.
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