单词 | tasimeter |
释义 | tasimetern. An electrical apparatus for measuring minute variations of temperature, length, moisture, etc. by means of changes in the electrical conductivity of carbon resulting from alterations of pressure caused by these variations. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring with extreme accuracy > by using changes in electrical conductivity tasimeter1878 1878 Nature 25 July 329/2 An account..of Edison's Tasimeter. 1879 H. W. Warren Recreations in Astron. iv. 62 If the temperature of a summer morning rises ten or twenty degrees we scarcely notice it; but the magnetic tasimeter measures 1/ 5000 of a degree. 1881 Nature 25 Aug. 390/2 No satisfactory results have been obtained in the attempt to measure the heat of the stars with the tasimeter. 1893 Rev. of Reviews Dec. 606 A little machine called the tasimeter, which measures degrees of heat, of moisture..of odours and sound. Derivatives tasiˈmetric adj. of or pertaining to the tasimeter or to tasimetry ( Encycl. Dict. 1888). taˈsimetry n. the measurement of pressures ( Funk's Standard Dict. 1895). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1878 |
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