Definitions

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

  • noun An instrument used to measure thermal expansion and dilation in solids and liquids.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An instrument for the determination of the changes of volume of a substance or for the measurement of its linear expansion.

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

  • noun (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.

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

  • noun An instrument used to measure the expansion of solids and liquids when heated, or when subjected to some other physical process

Etymologies

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

[dilate + –meter.]

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Examples

  • LEMON: To understand the problem with the current armor, Speyer built an instrument called the differential dilatometer.

    CNN Transcript May 12, 2007 2007

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