colorimeter

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstintometer

   Broadermeasuring instrument

Other forms of colorimeter

plural

colorimeters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about colorimeter

What does colorimeter mean?

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

How many syllables are in colorimeter?

colorimeter has 5 syllables: co-lo-ri-me-ter. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for colorimeter?

Close synonyms include tintometer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is colorimeter a common word?

colorimeter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.