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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An instrument that measures and indicates the amount of x-rays or radiation absorbed in a given period.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An apparatus for measuring minute quantities of liquid; a drop-meter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun for measuring doses of .
  • noun a device for measuring doses of radiation, especially ionizing radiation such as X-rays, gamma rays, or ionizing particles.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A device used to measure a dose of ionising radiation. These normally take the form of either Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL), photographic film, thermoluminescent devices (TLD) or electronic personal dosimeters (PDM).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a measuring instrument for measuring doses of ionizing radiation (X-rays or radioactivity)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[dos(e) + –meter.]

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