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Definition of Timekeepers
1. timekeeper [n] - See also: timekeeper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timekeepers
Literary usage of Timekeepers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"Amusing and instructive as " Time and timekeepers" may obviously be rendered,
yet Mr. Thompson will engage and inform any reader of his small book beyond ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"... disturbances which sweep over the whole surface of our globe many times per
year affect this class of timekeepers has not yet been investigated. ..."
3. A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts by Thomas Young (1845)
"... to make any material improvements in these departments of mechanical art by
the application of theoretical refinements.* LECTURE XV11. ON timekeepers. ..."
4. Manual of Astronomy: A Text-book by Charles Augustus Young (1902)
"... II ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS Telescopes, and their Accessories and Mountings —
timekeepers and Chronographs — The Transit-Instrument — The Prime Vertical ..."
5. Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries (1810)
"If this be a correct statement of the present mode of finding the rates of
timekeepers, and we have no reason to doubt this writer's acquaintance with tha ..."
6. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1806)
"Exploitation of timekeepers, constructed by the late Mr.. JOHN ARNOLD ; for u-hich
a Reward of £3000 vat greet by the Board of Longitude to his Son MR. ..."
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