Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the manometer; made with the manometer: as, manometric observations.

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

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the manometer; made by the manometer.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to manometry, or measured using a manometer

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Examples

  • The Pettenkofer method was developed from eleven principal measuring techniques including gravimetric, titrimetric, volumetric and manometric.

    Unthreaded #16 « Climate Audit 2007

  • The Pettenkofer method was developed from eleven principal measuring techniques including gravimetric, titrimetric, volumetric and manometric.

    Unthreaded #18 « Climate Audit 2007

  • The yield-head curve shows how the total manometric head that a pump is able to reach varies in accordance with variations in the pump's output.

    7. Pumping equipment 1992

  • Total manometric headNet positive suction headCharacteristic curves

    7. Pumping equipment 1992

  • Total manometric head is the difference in pressure (in metres) between the pump's inlet and outlet points.

    7. Pumping equipment 1992

  • This instrument is composed of a metallic vessel or tube which contains the liquid to be exposed to heat, and of a spring manometric apparatus communicating with the tube, and by means of which the existing temperature is shown.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various

  • C D is the plate on which are mounted vertically the former, and from which are suspended the latter, b shows the pyrometer, the length of which must be such that the manometric apparatus shall stand out one or two inches from the external surface of the wall, while its tube, traversing the wall, shall reach the very last row of heating cylinders.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various

  • He had not been forgetful of 'Visible Speech' all this while, but had been making experiments with two remarkable machines -- the phonautograph and the manometric capsule, by means of which the vibrations of sound were made plainly visible.

    The History of the Telephone 1910

  • Perhaps the most interesting feature of the mechanism was that the Ring appeared to have automatic stability, for the angle of the direction in which the tractor was pointed was controlled not only by a pair of gyroscopes which kept the Ring on an even keel, but also by a manometric valve causing it to fly at a fixed height above the earth's surface.

    The Man Who Rocked the Earth Arthur Cheney Train 1910

  • He had not been forgetful of "Visible Speech" all this while, but had been making experiments with two remarkable machines -- the phonautograph and the manometric capsule, by means of which the vibrations of sound were made plainly visible.

    The History of the Telephone Herbert Newton Casson 1910

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