chronometer

• chronometre (nonstandard)

From chrono- +‎ -meter, possibly after the model of earlier French chronomètre (“metronome”), ultimately from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + μέτρον (métron, “meter, measuring device”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈnɒm.ə.tə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈnɑ.mə.tɚ/, [kɹəˈnɑ.mə.ɾɚ]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈnɔm.ə.tə(ɹ)/

chronometer (plural chronometers)

1. A device for measuring time, particularly a precision mechanism for measuring time of day.

   A wristwatch costs $20. A chronometer costs $20,000.

• timepiece (some uses)

• clock, timepiece (some uses), watch, pocket watch; stopwatch, chronograph; chronoscope; sundial; hourglass; water clock, clepsydra; horologium, horologe (archaic)

• horology, chronometry (study of time); horologist, horologer (manufacturer)

• “chronometer”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Wolfgang Köberer, "On the First Use of the Term 'Chronometer'", The Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 106, No. 2, 2016, pp. 203–06

• chronometre