The West Indies, more commonly referred to as the Caribbean, consists of three major island groups: the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles include some of the most well-known individual islands, including Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Word Root: CHRON (time) Example words: - CHRONology - CHRONic - synCHRONize - CHRONicle - anaCHRONism - CHRONometer #vocabulary #wordroot #chron.
The term chronograph comes from the Greek word for time, chronos, combined with the Greek word for writing, graph. Early versions of the chronograph are the only ones that actually used any writing: marking the dial with a small pen attached to the index so that the length of the pen mark would indicate how much time has elapsed.