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Definition of Densimeter
1. Noun. A measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity.
Specialized synonyms: Dasymeter
Generic synonyms: Measuring Device, Measuring Instrument, Measuring System
Definition of Densimeter
1. n. An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity or density of a substance.
Definition of Densimeter
1. Noun. A densitometer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Densimeter
1. Synonym: densitometer. Origin: L. Densitas, density, + G. Metron, measure (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Densimeter
Literary usage of Densimeter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Treatise on Mechanics: For the Use of Colleges and Schools of Science by William Guy Peck (1870)
"densimeter. 161. The densimeter admits of use when only a small portion of the
liquid can be had. Its construction differs from that of the volumeter, ..."
2. Petroleum: Its History, Origin, Occurrence, Production, Physical and by William Theodore Brannt, Hans Höfer, Alexander Veith (1894)
"Greiner's densimeter has four spindles giving the specific gravity respectively
from 0.600 to ... In the hollow space of the densimeter is a thermometer on ..."
3. A Manual of Sugar Analysis: Including the Applications in General of by J. H. Tucker (1890)
"The table below gives the correspondence of the volumeter and specific gravities :
THE densimeter. This instrument reads directly, without calculation, ..."
4. Lessons in Elementary Practical Physics by Balfour Stewart, William Winson Haldane Gee (1885)
"Graduation of a densimeter. 96. Exercise.—To provide a hydrometer with a scale
of densities. The instrument to be used for liquids heavier than water. ..."
5. Lectures on Explosives: A Course of Lectures Prepared Especially as a Manual by Willoughby Walke (1897)
"In connection with this densimeter is used an ordinary Ritchie air-pump, in which,
... The air- pump and densimeter are connected through a catch-bottle by ..."
6. Lectures on Explosives: A Course of Lectures Prepared Especially as a Manual by Willoughby Walke (1900)
"In connection with this densimeter is used an ordinary Ritchie air-pump, in which,
... The air- pump and densimeter are connected through a catch-bottle by ..."
7. Handbook of Pharmacy, Embracing the Theory and Practice of Pharmacy and the by Virgil Coblentz (1894)
"Rousseau's densimeter.—This instrument (Fig. 54) is of use in ascertaining the
specific gravity of liquids where only a small amount is available. ..."
8. A Practical Handbook of Medical Chemistry Applied to Clinical Research and by William Houston Greene (1880)
"The lacto-densimeter consists of an hydrometer, in which only the last two ...
An ordinary hydrometer may be employed instead of the lacto-densimeter, ..."
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