sonometer

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The external neutrality that we can now produce at will is absolute, as it crosses the line of two contrary polarities, being similar to the zero of my electric sonometer, whose zero is obtained by the crossing of two opposing electric forces.

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  1. noun See audiometer.

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  • The external neutrality that we can now produce at will is absolute, as it crosses the line of two contrary polarities, being similar to the zero of my electric sonometer, whose zero is obtained by the crossing of two opposing electric forces. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
 

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  1. from Latin sonus, sound, + Greek μέτρον, measure.
 

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