angulometern.
/ˌaŋɡjᵿˈlɒmɪtə/, U.S. /ˌæŋɡjəˈlɑmədər/ Now rare.
A device for measuring external angles.
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1817 T. Barber in Trans. Soc. Encouragem. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce 34 150 With this letter you will receive an instrument I have denominated an Angulometer, and which I take the liberty to beg of you to present to the Society.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 106/1 A try-square may be termed an angulometer, ‘a bent measure’.
1976 Physical Therapy 56 163/2 Soviet gait researchers have used a device..called the angulometer, to record the angular displacements of the joints of the lower extremity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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