Definitions

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

  • noun An instrument or device used to measure the skull.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An instrument for measuring the dimensions of the skull.

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

  • noun An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.

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

  • noun A device used to measure the size of the skull.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an instrument for measuring skull sizes

Etymologies

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cranio- + -meter

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Examples

  • I at first thought of taking the length of the skull by a craniometer, and seeing what portion of the total length to the posterior edge of the sacrum it would be, but I soon discarded the idea on account of the variation in the supra-occipital process.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

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