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Thoracometer :: Thoracometer (n.) Same as Stethometer.

Myriameter :: Myriameter (n.) Alt. of Myriametr.

Registering :: Registering (a.) Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording..

Aune :: Aune (n.) A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter..

Incommensurable :: Incommensurable (a.) Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable..

Upher :: Upher (n.) A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split..

Volumenometry :: Volumenometry (n.) The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.

Polarimeter :: Polarimeter (n.) An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray..

Pedo- :: Pedo- () Combining forms from L. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp, pedireme, pedometer..

Pirameter :: Pirameter (n.) A dynamometer for ascertaining the power required to draw carriages over roads.

Araeometer :: Araeometer () See Areometer.

Hemadynamometer :: Hemadynamometer (n.) An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a haemomanometer..

Albuminimeter :: Albuminimeter (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.

Coal-meter :: Coal-meter (n.) A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter.

Opposite :: Opposite (a.) Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node..

Prose :: Prose (n.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence..

Viameter :: Viameter (n.) An odometer; -- called also viatometer.

Slidometer :: Slidometer (n.) An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

Esthesiometer :: Esthesiometer (n.) An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered..

Millimetre :: Millimetre (n.) A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter..

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