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

  • noun An instrument, such as polarimeter, that indicates the concentration of sugar in a solution.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hydrometer for testing saccharine solutions, used by brewers; a saccharometer.
  • noun An optical instrument used to determine the quantity of sugar in a solution.

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

  • noun An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.

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

  • noun A polarimeter used to measure the sugar content of a liquid

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