Sentence examples for accurate timepiece from inspiring English sources
An accurate timepiece recorded the exact times when the angles between the ship and the stars were fixed, thus allowing a precise latitude and longitude to be determined.
Mr. Zalaznick likes to talk, and if you ask, he might tell you why a cheap quartz watch is a more accurate timepiece than a pristine Rolex.
The development of the chronometer (an accurate timepiece) made the computation of longitude much less laborious than before; much more information on islands and coastal features came to the map and chart makers.
A lowly Victorian-era Home Office employee is saved from a terrorist bomb by a pocket-watch he is mysteriously given, which draws him into a world of clairvoyance, plots and Japanese watchmakers in a story as intricately plotted and as beautifully crafted as the most accurate timepiece.
It was here in the 1930s that the physicist Louis Essen developed the first quartz ring clock, the most accurate timepiece of its day, and a precursor of the caesium clock.
It was not until Christiaan Huygens almost one hundred years later that the tautochrone nature of a swinging pendulum was used to create an accurate timepiece.
The very large Q of quartz is exploited in electronic oscillator circuits to make remarkably accurate timepieces.
When else during your day are you reliant on accurate timepieces? 2. As a class, read and discuss the article "Got the Time?
Atomic clocks are already the most accurate timepieces in existence, typically losing or gaining a second every 100 million years or so.
George Washington, the president of the United States, wishing to buy the best watch available anywhere, turned to the American minister in Paris because the world's most accurate timepieces were still made in France.
But for scientists who build atomic clocks, which are the most accurate timepieces in the world and crucial to the proper functioning of telecommunications networks, Global Positioning System satellites and other systems, time flies in increments of one nine-billionth of a second.
