Definition of Millivoltmeter

1. Noun. Sensitive voltmeter that can measure voltage in millivolts.

Generic synonyms: Voltmeter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Millivoltmeter

milliroentgen
milliroentgens
millisecond
milliseconds
millisiemens
millisievert
millisieverts
millisite
milliskin
milliskins
millistere
millisteres
milliunit
milliunits
millivolt
millivoltmeter (current term)
millivolts
milliwatt
milliwatts
milliweber
milliwebers
millosevichite
millosevichites
millpond
millponds
millrace
millraces
millrind
millrinds
millrun

Literary usage of Millivoltmeter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Pyrometry: The Theory, Calibration, and Use of Instruments for the by Ervin Sidney Ferry, Glenn Alfred Shook, Jacob Roland Collins (1917)
"A millivoltmeter or potentiometer with a scale divided so as to indicate ... millivoltmeter Indicators. — Thermoelectric pyrometer indicators are usually ..."

2. Practical Pyrometry: The Theory, Calibration, and Use of Instruments for the by Ervin Sidney Ferry, Glenn Alfred Shook, Jacob Roland Collins (1920)
"A millivoltmeter or potentiometer with a scale divided so as to indicate ... millivoltmeter Indicators. — Thermoelectric pyrometer indicators are usually ..."

3. Electricity and Magnetism for Engineers by Harold Pender (1918)
"ohms, between the two potential terminals of the shunt, and rv the resistance, in ohms, of the millivoltmeter and the leads between it and the shunt. ..."

4. Armature Winding and Motor Repair: Practical Information and Data Covering by Daniel Harvey Braymer (1920)
"Use of a Bar Magnet and millivoltmeter to Locate a Reversed Armature Coil.—In armatures where both leads of a coil are taped together, and led out from an ..."

5. Dynamo Laboratory Manual for Colleges and Technical Schools by William Suddards Franklin, Stanley Sylvester Seyfert, Clarence Edward Clewell, William Esty (1910)
".—The current, /, flowing in a circuit may be determined by measuring with a millivoltmeter the voltage drop, RI, across a known resistance, R, connected in ..."

6. Pyrometry: The Papers and Discussion of a Symposium on Pyrometry Held by the by National Research Council (U.S.) (1920)
"Now assume that the resistance of the millivoltmeter R is 30 ohms and that the same changes in resistance in the couple and leads r take place as above. ..."

7. The Elements of Electricity and Magnetism: A Text-book for Colleges and by William Suddards Franklin, Barry MacNutt (1908)
"If the value of R is one one-thousandth of an ohm, then the reading of the millivoltmeter in millivolts is the value of the current in amperes. ..."

8. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1912)
"millivoltmeter No. 1 is joined to the potential terminals a, b, between which the resistance is x. ... 1 and call its deflection d\ and millivoltmeter No. ..."

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