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Etymology edit

silo +‎ -meter

Noun edit

silometer (plural silometers)

  1. An electromechanical device for measuring the level of the contents of large containers such as silos.
    • 1968, Water meter cover: US Patent 3,392,867:
      In 'the more likely event that the silometer arrangement does not permit of free passage of the assembled cover 10 into place, the sections 26 thereof, being substantially smaller in cross section than the assembled cover, are adapted to be easily passed into place, around the meter M, and worked into 'assembled relationship, in place on the dirt fill D, the assembly of the sections then being completed, either by pressing together cement carrying edges thereof, or by applying tapes 32 across and along their meeting edges.
    • 1999, Clive E Davies, Kristina Fenton, “Moisture measurement in free flowing particulate solids using an off-the-shelf capacitance level probe”, in Chemeca 99: Chemical Engineering: Solutions in a Changing Environment:
      It consists of a fully insulated rod probe fitted with an electronic oscillator, and a Silometer FMC 420 which in normal operation gives an output signal proportional to the depth of immersion of the probe.
    • 2009, S Mekhilef, M Hassani, A Mehbodniya, H Tebianian, “Design and implementation of a level detector”, in International Conference for Technical Postgraduates 2009:
      Silometer is an electromechanical level detector which can measure the level in silos, tanks, bunkers and any kind of containers, depending on the sensing weight and strain force.

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