chronoscope

American  

[kron-uh-skohp, kroh-nuh-] / ˈkrɒn əˌskoʊp, ˈkroʊ nə- /

noun

1. an electronic instrument for measuring accurately very brief intervals of time, as in determining the velocity of projectiles.

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chronoscope British  

/ ˈkrɒnəˌskəʊp, ˈkrəʊnə-, ˌkrəʊnə- /

noun

1. an instrument that registers small intervals of time on a dial, cathode-ray tube, etc

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Other Word Forms

• chronoscopy
  noun
• chronoscopic
  adjective
• chronoscopically
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of chronoscope

First recorded in 1695–1705; chrono- + -scope

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Example Sentences

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chronoscope

The fork, on its resonator, was placed horizontally, the platinum tip just touching the lampblacked cylinder of a Schultze chronoscope.

From Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis by Albert A. Michelson

Stimulus is given by the operator as soon as the chronoscope is started, and by this act the chronoscope circuit is broken and the record begun.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg

The clock used for exact work is likely to be the Hipp chronoscope, which gives on its dials indications of time intervals in thousandths of a second.

From The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin

Besides, I had read articles about the chronoscope, the plethysmograph, the sphygmograph, and others of the new psychological instruments.

From The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

As soon as the point touched the animal the chronoscope circuit was broken by the raising of the upper arm of the key.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg

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