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Definition of Chronoscope
1. Noun. An instrument for accurate measurements of small intervals of time.
Specialized synonyms: Time-delay Measuring Instrument, Time-delay Measuring System
Definition of Chronoscope
1. n. An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.
Definition of Chronoscope
1. Noun. an optical instrument used to measure very small time intervals with precision ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chronoscope
Literary usage of Chronoscope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"recognized by psychologists (though apparently not yet discovered by physicists)
that the chronoscope only gives correct times when the relative strength ol ..."
2. A Text-book of Experimental Psychology: With Laboratory Exercises by Charles Samuel Myers (1911)
"The chronoscope requires careful treatment in order to insure uniformity and ...
A commutator must always be introduced into the chronoscope circuit, ..."
3. The British Journal of Psychology by British Psychological Society (1913)
"'Psychical distance' as a factor in art and an aesthetic principle .........
87 DUNLAP, KNIGHT. The Hipp chronoscope without armature springs . ..."
4. The Psychology of Musical Talent by Carl Emil Seashore (1919)
"A CHRONOGRAPH AND A chronoscope The chronograph. The apparatus shown in Figure
1, Chapter II, may be converted into a chronograph which is adapted for the ..."
5. Ordnance and Gunnery: A Text-book Prepared for the Cadets of the United by Ormond Mitchell Lissak (1907)
"The Schultz chronoscope is an instrument of this class. An electrically sustained
tuning fork, c, Fig. 12, whose rate of vibration is known, carries on one ..."
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