"Chronometer" is a word in ENGLISH
An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.
A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation
balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time
with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in
determining longitude, etc.
A metronome.
These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.
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Read the complete definitionA timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It …
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