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An instrument for measuring charts or maps.

An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.

A steelyard for weighting grain.

A metronome. Box chronometer. See under Box. -- Pocket chronometer, a chronometer in the form of a large watch. -- To rate a chronometer. See Rate, v. t.

An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.

See Scimiter.

An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. Dana.

A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. Simmonds.

An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.

A calculating machine; an arithmometer.

An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.

Any instrument by which electricity can be measured in coulombs.

An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.

A thermometer for the measurement of low temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury.

An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.

A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.

An instrument for exhibiting and measuring wave motion; specif. (Elec.),

An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density.

A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.

A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.