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Horologe vs Chronometer - What's the difference?

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Horologe is a related term of chronometer.


As nouns the difference between horologe and chronometer

is that horologe is (obsolete) a clock or watch while chronometer is a device for measuring time, such as a watch or clock.

horologe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A clock or watch.
  • * 1597': He'll watch the '''horologe a double set, If drink rock not his cradle. — Shakespeare, '' Othello, ii 3
  • *1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. II, ''Gospel of Mammonism
    • A SOUL is not like wind (spiritus'', or breath) contained within a capsule; the ALMIGHTY MAKER is not like a Clockmaker that once, in old immemorial ages, having ''made'' his Horologe of a Universe, sits ever since and sees it go! Not at all. Hence comes Atheism; come, as we say, many other ''isms […]

    Related terms

    * Horologium

    chronometer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * chronometre (nonstandard)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device for measuring time, such as a watch or clock.