Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument or apparatus for determining tints or shades of color by comparison with standard tints or shades.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) An apparatus for the determination of colors by comparison with arbitrary standards; a colorimeter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents
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Examples
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"What's the matter?" he asked, catching my eye as he paused with the tintometer in his hand.
The Dream Doctor 1908
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"Any month you please," he smiled grimly, as he reluctantly placed the tintometer in its cabinet.
The Dream Doctor 1908
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The glasses employed were subjected to careful spectroscopic examination, and to colour-measurement by the tintometer, but neither were found to give precise indications as to the protective power of the glasses, which is no doubt due to the absorption of the violet, and especially of the invisible ultra-violet rays.
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894
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"For example," he resumed, "the Lovibond tintometer tells me its story of the colour of the ink used in the ribbon of the machine that wrote this note as well as several standard specimens which I have been able to obtain from three machines on which it might have been written.
The Dream Doctor 1908
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