Definition of Salimeter

1. n. An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution.

Definition of Salimeter

1. Noun. A hydrometer used to measure the concentration of salt in a solution ¹

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Definition of Salimeter

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Salimeter

1. A hydrometer used to determine the specific gravity, or the concentration, of a saline solution. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salimeter

salient angle
salientian
salientians
saliently
salients
saliferous
salifiable
salification
salified
salifies
salify
salifying
saligenin
saligot
saligots
salimeter (current term)
salimeters
salimetries
salimetry
salina period
salinas
salinate
salinated
salinates
salinating
salination
salinations
saline
saline agglutinin
saline conditions

Literary usage of Salimeter

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

1. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy: Based on the Traité de Physique by Augustin Privat-Deschanel, Joseph David Everett (1897)
"... called a salimeter, and is so constructed that when immersed in pure water of the temperature 12° Cent, it sinks nearly to the top of the stem, ..."

2. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1884)
"a salimeter, and is so constructed that when immersed in pure of the temperature 12° Cent, it sinks nearly to the top of the and the point thus determined ..."

3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"2 is called a salimeter, and- is used for estimating the proportion of a salt or other substance in solution. It is graduated in the following manner: Being ..."

4. Report of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American (1907)
"A necessary quantity to bring the liquid after boiling to mark 8° or 10° on the salimeter. These compositions are placed in the boiler after every washing ..."

5. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1898)
"called a salimeter, and is so constructed that when immersed in pure water of the temperature 12° Cent, it sinks nearly to the top of the stem, ..."

6. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1890)
"It gave an artesian flow*of brine, which, though partially choked, is still running. Its strength on the salimeter was 14°, which is exactly the strength of ..."

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