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Definition of Sclerometer
1. Noun. A measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point.
Definition of Sclerometer
1. n. An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.
Definition of Sclerometer
1. Noun. A device used to measure the hardness of a material by applying pressure to a moving diamond stylus ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sclerometer
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Sclerometer
1. A device for determining the density or hardness of any substance. Origin: sclero-+ G. Metron, measure (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sclerometer
Literary usage of Sclerometer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heat-treatment of Steel: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Hardening edited by Erik Oberg (1914)
"A steel with 0.95 per cent carbon tested in a similar manner by Heyn and Bauer
with a Martens sclerometer gave a loss of hardness of 41.0 per cent; ..."
2. Motor Vehicle Engineering: Engines (for Automobiles, Trucks and Tractors) by Ethelbert Favary (1919)
"The sclerometer is cheap, portable, and easily applied, but it is not applicable
to materials which do not possess a fairly smooth reflecting surface, ..."
3. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson, Morton Owen Withey (1919)
"The sclerometer.—The scratch test has long been in use by the mineralogist to
compare the relative hardness of minerals.* On account of the variability of ..."
4. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson (1918)
"The sclerometer.—The scratch test has long been in use by the mineral 'gist to
compare the relative hardness of minerals.* On , account of the variability ..."
5. Motor Vehicle Engineering; Engines (for Automobiles, Trucks, and Tractors) by Ethelbert Favary (1920)
"Turner's sclerometer.—In this form of test a weighted diamond ... The sclerometer
is cheap, portable, and easily applied, but it is not applicable to ..."
6. Motor Vehicle Engineering; Engines (for Automobiles, Trucks, and Tractors) by Ethelbert Favary (1920)
"Turner,s sclerometer.—In this form of test a weighted diamond point is drawn,
once forward and ... The sclerometer is cheap, portable, and easily applied, ..."
7. The Prevention of Dental Caries and Oral Sepsis by Henry Percy Pickerill (1919)
"By means of a special instrument—the " sclerometer." The latter method seemed
the more ... 62 shows the form of sclerometer which was used for the purpose. ..."
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