Meaning

2 senses
  1. Any of various instruments designed to determine the color of something, by comparison with standard colors or by spectroscopy.

    Kolorimeter

  2. An analytic instrument that estimates the concentration of a substance in a sample by measuring its color against the solution's complementary color.

    a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents

Translations

3 languages
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By meaning 1
instrument designed to determine color:

Origin

From color + -meter. Compare Latin color, colōris.

From color + -meter. Compare Latin color, colōris.

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Forms

plural: colorimeters

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents:tintometer

Word family

5 related words

See also

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