Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An instrument used to measure specific gravity.
- n. An instrument used to measure variations in a gravitational field.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An instrument for determining the specific gravities of bodies, whether liquid or solid. See hydrometer.
- n. 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.
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. physics an instrument used to measure local variations in the gravitational field
- n. physics a hydrometer
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physics) An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of bodies.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid
- n. a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth
Etymologies
- gravi- + -meter (Wiktionary)
- French gravimètre : Latin gravis, heavy; see gravity + French -mètre, -meter. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“Using a sensitive gravimeter (as in reading microgals for use in geophysical exploration) one can take readings at several different heights above the floor.”
“An experiment probing for anomalous vertical gravity on Earth, which has already been performed by us, uses the highest-resolution atomic gravimeter so far.”
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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. ”
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