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Conchometer :: Conchometer (n.) An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire..

Tappit Hen :: Tappit hen () A measuring pot holding one quart (according to some, three quarts); -- so called from a knob on the lid, thought to resemble a crested hen..

Dialing :: Dialing (n.) The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.

Nauropometer :: Nauropometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount which a ship heels at sea.

Refractometer :: Refractometer (n.) A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.

Electrometer :: Electrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity; also, sometimes, and less properly, applied to an instrument which indicates the presence of electricity (usually called an electroscope)..

Labidometer :: Labidometer (n.) A forceps with a measuring attachment for ascertaining the size of the fetal head.

Hourglass :: Hourglass (n.) An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower..

Thermoelectrometer :: Thermoelectrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of an electric current in the heat which it produces, or for determining the heat developed by such a current..

Horology :: Horology (n.) The science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc..

Nephelometer :: Nephelometer (n.) An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

Metewand :: Metewand (n.) A measuring rod.

Hydroscope :: Hydroscope (n.) A kind of water clock, used anciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube..

Pyrometer :: Pyrometer (n.) An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

Thermometer :: Thermometer (n.) An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions..

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

Galvanometer :: Galvanometer (n.) An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle..

Tachometer :: Tachometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance..

Tonometer :: Tonometer (n.) An instrument for measuring tension, esp. that of the eyeball..

Phosphoroscope :: Phosphoroscope (n.) An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration..

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