meter-, metro-, metr-, -metrical, -metrically, -metron, -metric, -metrist, -meters, -metry, -metre
(Greek: measure)
tachometer
tachometer, tachometry
A device used to determine the speed of rotation, typically of a vehicle’s crankshaft and usually in revolutions per minute. Also known as a "speedometer".
tachymeter
An instrument used in surveying to work out distances, elevations, and directions at speed.
tachymetry
Enables the operator, by a single observation upon a rod, to obtain the necessary horizontal and vertical data for the determination of the three elements of position of a point on the surface of the earth.
tactometer
taximeter
telebarometer
A barometer that registers its indications from a distance.
telehydrobarometer
An instrument for recording the pressure of a head of water or other liquid.
telemeter
telemetrically
telemetry
telethermometer
1. Any of various thermometers that indicate or record temperatures at a distance, usually by means of an electric current.
2. An apparatus for determining temperature on which the reading is made at a distance from the object or subject being studied.
tenonometer
tensimeter
An instrument that measure small changes in gas or vapor pressure and is used to obtain the temperature point at which one phase of a substance, especially a crystal, is changed into another.
tensiometer
1. Any instrument for measuring tautness or tension; such as, of a stretched wire, fabric, etc., or of the eyeball.
2. An instrument for measuring the surface tension of a liquid.
Related "measure" and "metric" words and charts:
mens-;
Metric Chart of Units;
Metric-Length Converter;
Metric Units and Links.
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