chronopher
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From chrono- (“time”) + φέρω (phérō, “to carry”).
Noun
[edit]chronopher (plural chronophers)
- (historical) An instrument that transmits the correct time to distant points by means of electricity.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chronopher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)