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Chronograph Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -graph

Chronograph has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

an accurate timer for recording time

"The diver pressed the button on his chronograph to start the race, ensuring every second of performance was accurately recorded."

2

A chronogram.

"The historian pointed out that the inscription on the ancient pillar was a clever chronogram, encoding the exact year of its construction within the letters themselves."

Verb
1

To make an accurate measurement of the speed of a projectile.

"The engineer fired the chronograph to measure exactly how fast the bullet was traveling downrange."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
timer
Rhyming Words
daph japh kaph raph alaph graph staph asaph paraph seraph teraph digraph epitaph bigraph oograph cograph subgraph biograph isograph duograph
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