measuring device

Questions about measuring device

What does measuring device mean?

measuring device means "instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something".

What is another word for measuring device?

Close synonyms include measuring instrument, measuring system. 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 measuring device a common word?

measuring device 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.