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An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.

The act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; hæmotachometry.

A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore. [Prov. Eng.]

The science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc.

An instrument for measuring time.

The art, practice, or method of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions. "The horometry of antiquity." Sir T. Browne.

An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.

The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.

An instrument, variously constructed, used for measuring the velocity or discharge of water, as in rivers, from reservoirs, etc., and called by various specific names according to its construction or use, as tachometer, rheometer, hydrometer, pendulum, etc.; a current gauge.

The art or operation of measuring the velocity or discharge of running water, as in rivers, etc.

A kind of water clock, used anciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube.

An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere. Daniell's hygrometer, a form of hygrometer consisting of a bent glass tube terminating in two bulbs, the one covered with muslin, the other of black glass, and containing ether and a thermometer. Ether being poured on the muslin, the black ball, cool…

The science or art of comparing or measuring degrees of moisture. Evelyn.

An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.

Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge. Shak.

An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the degree or rate of electrical induction.

Adapted to the interior. Inside callipers (Mech.), callipers for measuring the diameters of holes, etc. -- Inside finish (Arch.), a general term for the final work in any building necessary for its completion, but other than unusual decoration; thus, in joiner work, the doors and windows, inside shutters, door and win…

An instrument for measuring small movements, distances, or displacements by means of the interference of two beams of light; -- called also refractometer.

An integrating wattmeter for measuring the energy in joules expended in an electric circuit or developed by a machine.

A Roman measure of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth.