11-letter words containing meter
- kinesimeter — An instrument for the quantitative measurement of movements.
- lactometers — Plural form of lactometer.
- light meter — exposure meter.
- megohmmeter — an instrument for measuring large resistances, especially the resistance of insulation.
- meter marks — special markings stamped onto privately franked mail by a machine
- micrometers — Plural form of micrometer.
- millimeters — Plural form of millimeter.
- multimeters — Plural form of multimeter.
- permeameter — an instrument for measuring magnetic permeability.
- pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
- plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
- psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
- pyrgeometer — an instrument for measuring the loss of heat by radiation from the earth's surface
- quantometer — a spectroscopic instrument for measuring the percentage of different metals present in a sample
- salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
- sclerometer — any instrument for determining with precision the degree of hardness of a substance, especially a mineral, as by measuring the pressure necessary to pierce or scratch it.
- seismometer — a seismograph equipped for measuring the direction, intensity, and duration of earthquakes by measuring the actual movement of the ground.
- snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
- solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
- speedometer — an instrument on an automobile or other vehicle for indicating the rate of travel in miles or kilometers per hour.
- spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
- stactometer — stalagmometer.
- stadiometer — an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc, by running a toothed wheel along them
- staktometer — an instrument for counting drops of liquid, consisting of a glass tube with a hollow bulb in it and one narrow end with a small opening
- stereometer — a device used to ascertain the specific gravity of liquid and porous bodies, powders, and solids
- stethometer — an instrument for measuring the expansion of the chest and abdomen during respiration.
- swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
- tacheometer — a type of theodolite designed for the rapid measurement of distances, elevations, and directions
- tensiometer — an instrument for measuring longitudinal stress in wires, structural beams, etc.
- thermometer — an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale marked on the tube or its frame.
- vaporimeter — an instrument for measuring vapor pressure or volume.
- velocimeter — any of various instruments for measuring velocity, as of a wave in water or of sound in air.
- voltammeter — an instrument for measuring voltage or amperage.
- water meter — a device for measuring and registering the quantity of water that passes through a pipe or other outlet.
- white meter — an electricity meter used to record the consumption of off-peak electricity
- zymosimeter — a device for measuring the rate or degree of fermentation