diagometer
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
diagometer (plural diagometers)
- A kind of electroscope in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conductive power.
- 1857, Pompeius Alexander Bolley, Manual of technical analysis:
- the use of an instrument called a diagometer, constructed so as to show the electrical conductibility of the oil to be examined
References edit
- “diagometer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.