echometry
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare French échométrie.
Noun edit
echometry (uncountable)
- The measurement of the duration of sounds or echoes.
- The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “echometry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)