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Chartometer :: Chartometer (n.) An instrument for measuring charts or maps.

Viscosimeter :: Viscosimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the degree of viscosity of liquids, as solutions of gum..

Palm :: Palm (n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.

Pedality :: Pedality (n.) The act of measuring by paces.

Haematachometer :: Haematachometer (n.) A form of apparatus (somewhat different from the hemadrometer) for measuring the velocity of the blood.

Pace :: Pace (n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces..

Pole :: Pole (n.) A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch..

Craniometer :: Craniometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.

Spectrophotometer :: Spectrophotometer (n.) An instrument for measuring or comparing the intensites of the colors of the spectrum.

Drosometer :: Drosometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew..

Dilatometer :: Dilatometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid..

Water Gauge :: Water gauge () An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge..

Bathymetry :: Bathymetry (n.) The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea..

Battuta :: Battuta (n.) The measuring of time by beating.

Ophthalmometer :: Ophthalmometer (n.) An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye, by which their curvature can be ascertained..

Diaphanometer :: Diaphanometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air.

Hydrometry :: Hydrometry (n.) The art or operation of measuring the velocity or discharge of running water, as in rivers, etc..

Durometer :: Durometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like..

Gasometer :: Gasometer (n.) An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required..

Ambulator :: Ambulator (n.) An instrument for measuring distances; -- called also perambulator.

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