measuring instrument

Questions about measuring instrument

What does measuring instrument mean?

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

What is another word for measuring instrument?

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

measuring instrument 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.