galvanometer

1. 1.

   meter for detecting or comparing or measuring small electric currents

   Broadermeter

   Narrowerastatic galvanometermoving-coil galvanometer

Other forms of galvanometer

plural

galvanometers·

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 galvanometer

What does galvanometer mean?

galvanometer means "meter for detecting or comparing or measuring small electric currents".

How many syllables are in galvanometer?

galvanometer has 5 syllables: gal-va-no-me-ter. The stress falls on "no".

Is galvanometer a common word?

galvanometer 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.