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Definition of Piezometer
1. Noun. A measuring instrument for measuring high pressures.
Definition of Piezometer
1. n. An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.
Definition of Piezometer
1. Noun. An instrument used to measure pressure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Piezometer
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Medical Definition of Piezometer
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Piezometer
Literary usage of Piezometer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Mechanics of Engineering and of the Construction of Machines by Julius Ludwig Weisbach (1870)
"738, where a piezometer is inserted, I the length and d the width of the portion
A £ of the pipe, h the head of water or depth of the point B below the ..."
2. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference Book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1902)
"piezometer.— If a vertical or oblique tube be inserted into a pipe containing
water under pressure, the water will rise in the former, and the vertical ..."
3. A Treatise on Hydraulics by Mansfield Merriman (1889)
"piezometer MEASUREMENTS. Let a piezometer tube be inserted into a pipe at any
point Z>, , whose distance from the reservoir is /, measured along the pipe ..."
4. Mechanics of Engineering and of Machinery by Julius Ludwig Weisbach, Gustav Herrmann, Joseph Frederic Klein (1878)
"piezometer.—The head, lost by the water which is passing through a set of pipes
... 738, where a piezometer is inserted, I the length and d the width of the ..."
5. Laboratory Physics: A Students Manual for Colleges and Scientific Schools by Dayton Clarence Miller (1903)
"COMPRESSIBILITY OF A LIQUID WITH THE piezometer Determine the compressibility
... The piezometer. — The compressibility of a liquid may be determined with a ..."
6. Text-book on Hydraulics by George Edmond Russell (1909)
"The best of this type of pump can rarely exceed a lift of 28 ft. and a good "
working-lift" is from 20 to 25 ft.. Water piezometer. — A piezometer ..."
7. Scientific Papers by Peter Guthrie Tait (1900)
"LET W be the weight of mercury which would take the place of the liquid in the
piezometer, w that of the mercury which fills a length I of the stem. ..."
8. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1902)
"It was desirable, in the first place, to make the distance between piezometers
as great as possible, in order to reduce to a minimum errors in piezometer ..."
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