A telescope mounted on a graduated scale, used for accurate measurement of small vertical distances.
Example sentencesExamples
- Each cathetometer has a horizontal travel of 1.8 m and a vertical travel of 1.2 m.
- This computer program controls motors that drive translation stages in a metrology system that consists of a pair of two-axis cathetometers.
- The vertical drops can be determined with a cathetometer even when someone else is gathering data with the apparatus.
- The length of fuel assemblies and fuel rods is measured by comparison with the length standard by means of cathetometer.
- The difference of the two readings on the cathetometer would give the corresponding length measured on the glass column for 100 ml.