Word Meanings - VAPORIMETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument for measuring the volume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.

Related words: (words related to VAPORIMETER)

• TESTIFICATION
  The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• VOLUMENOMETRY
  The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.
• VOLUMENOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• VAPORATE
  To emit vapor; to evaporate.
• TESTIMONY
  The two tables of the law. Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. Ex. xxv. 16. 6. Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. Ps. xix. Syn. -- Proof; evidence;
• VAPORY
  1. Full of vapors; vaporous. 2. Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• MEASURING
  Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure. Measuring faucet, a faucet which permits only a given quantity of liquid to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured.
• VOLUMETRIC
  Of or pertaining to the measurement of volume. Volumetric analysis , that system of the quantitative analysis of solutions which employs definite volumes of standardized solutions of reagents, as measured by burettes, pipettes, etc.; also, the
• VAPORIFORM
  Existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• VOLUMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.
• TESTES
  pl. of Teste, or of Testis.
• TESTAMUR
  A certificate of merit or proficiency; -- so called from the Latin words, Ita testamur, with which it commences. (more info) Universities)
• TESTACY
  The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.
• TESTIFICATOR
  A testifier.
• TESTUDINATE; TESTUDINATED
  Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.
• TESTERN
  A sixpence; a tester.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• DETESTABLY
  In a detestable manner.
• INTENSION
  The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
• IMMEASURABLY
  In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth.
• PROTENSION
  A drawing out; extension. Sir W. Hamilton.
• PORTENSION
  The act of foreshowing; foreboding. Sir T. Browne.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
  The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.