Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument used to measure specific gravity.
- noun An instrument used to measure variations in a gravitational field.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for determining the specific gravities of bodies, whether liquid or solid. See
hydrometer . - noun An instrument for measuring the force of gravity against some elastic force. There have been many attempts to construct such instruments, but none has been successful.
- noun Specifically, a copper vessel of one cubic foot capacity, with a heavy plate-glass cover, used in determining the density of large-grained gunpowder inclusive of the vacant spaces between its grains. See
gravimetric density of gunpowder , under density.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of bodies.
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- noun physics an instrument used to
measure localvariations in thegravitational field - noun physics a
hydrometer
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid
- noun a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was called a gravimeter, and it sat in a huge glass-and-wood cabinet like the ones you see at the Smithsonian or the British Museum.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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The experiment does not yet yield a gravity measurement of great accuracy, but the researchers believe the technique could lead to a workable "gravimeter" small enough to use in navigation systems that depend on acceleration measurements.
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Using a sensitive gravimeter (as in reading microgals for use in geophysical exploration) one can take readings at several different heights above the floor.
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An experiment probing for anomalous vertical gravity on Earth, which has already been performed by us, uses the highest-resolution atomic gravimeter so far.
arxiv Find: Atom interferometry tests of local Lorentz invariance Sean 2009
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Ray and his team were not just taking pictures they were using all kinds of instruments including a magnetometer, gravimeter, microdensitometer, spectrometer etc.
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Rational Review 2009
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If heavy element deposits are hidden underneath, the gravimeter will react promptly by showing strong fluctuations in the local gravity field. "
Nano Tech Wire 2010
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"The proposed gravimeter setup is largely inspired by these amazing advances, and it uses the simplest possible configuration of replicas of a uniform synthetic field, which can be created easily in
Nano Tech Wire 2010
MaryW commented on the word gravimeter
Victoria Bruce, No Apparent Danger: The True Story of Volcanic Disaster at Galeras and Nevado Del Ruiz (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), ch. 9Id., ch. 10.("Gravimeter" is the term found in my New Oxford American Dictionary.)
May 1, 2016