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hydrometer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hydrometer has 1 sense
- hydrometer(n = noun.artifact) gravimeter - a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid; Array is a kind of measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system
has particulars: salinometer, thermogravimeter, thermohydrometer
Derived form adjective hydrometric1
CIDE DICTIONARY
hydrometer, n. [Hydro-, 1 + -meter: cf. F. hydromètre.].
- An instrument for determining the specific gravities of liquids, and thence the strength spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc. [1913 Webster]" It is usually made of glass with a graduated stem, and indicates the specific gravity of a liquid by the depth to which it sinks in it, the zero of the scale marking the depth to which it sinks in pure water. Extra weights are sometimes used to adapt the scale to liquids of different densities." [1913 Webster]
- An instrument, variously constructed, used for measuring the velocity or discharge of water, as in rivers, from reservoirs, etc., and called by various specific names according to its construction or use, as
tachometer ,rheometer ,hydrometer ,pendulum , etc.; a current gauge.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hydrometer, n. an instrument for measuring the density of liquids.
Derivative
hydrometric adj. hydrometry n.
ROGET THESAURUS
hydrometer
Density
N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.
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