stereometer

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English

Etymology

From stereo- +‎ -meter.

Noun

stereometer (plural stereometers)

  1. An instrument for measuring the solid contents of a body, or the capacity of a vessel; a volumenometer.
  2. An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid or porous bodies or powders, as well as solids.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stereometer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)