Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument used to measure density or specific gravity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus for ascertaining the specific gravity or comparative density of a solid or liquid, as metals, gunpowder, or sea-water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity or density of a substance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
densitometer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Baume aerometer (or densimeter) enables the determination of the density of a liquid.
Chapter 5 1993
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For this reason, usage of the densimeter enabling the determination of exact concentration of the alkaline solution available for saponification, is necessary.
Chapter 4 1993
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Examples showing how to calculate the quantity of caustic soda solution needed for saponification by using the saponification value and the Baune-densimeter.
Chapter 4 1993
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The basic solution so obtained can be easily diluted by water addition and usage of a densimeter to control progression of the dilution.
Chapter 4 1993
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There was a Geiger counter, an automatic spectrograph, two atmosphere suits, a torsion densimeter, a core-cutting drill, a few small hammers and picks, two spare air tanks, boxes of food concentrate, a paint tube, a doorless jimmy-john and two small metal boxes about eight inches cube.
The Risk Profession Donald E. Westlake
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The examination of black blasting powder has been greatly facilitated and, at the same time, made considerably more accurate, by means of a densimeter devised at this laboratory.
hernesheir commented on the word densimeter
cf. hydrometer
January 4, 2009