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Volta-electrometer :: Volta-electrometer (n.) An instrument for the exact measurement of electric currents.

Aune :: Aune (n.) A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter..

Perimetry :: Perimetry (n.) The art of using the perimeter; measurement of the field of vision.

Pedometer :: Pedometer (n.) An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step..

Aesthesiometer :: Aesthesiometer (n.) Alt. of Esthesiomete.

Thermometrograph :: Thermometrograph (n.) An instrument for recording graphically the variations of temperature, or the indications of a thermometer..

Tachometer :: Tachometer (n.) An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial..

Sector :: Sector (n.) An astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector..

Apomecometer :: Apomecometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the height of objects.

Measure :: Measure (n.) To serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature..

Geothermometer :: Geothermometer (n.) A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground.

Harmonometer :: Harmonometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.

Stereometric :: Stereometer (n.) An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids..

Bead Proof :: Bead proof () Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters..

Fungia :: Fungia (n.) A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter..

Decimeter :: Decimeter (n.) Alt. of Decimetr.

Haematometer :: Haematometer (n.) Same as Hemadynamometer.

Haematodynamometer :: Haematodynamometer (n.) Same as Hemadynamometer.

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

Urinometry :: Urinometry (n.) The estimation of the specific gravity of urine by the urinometer.

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