potentiometer

Questions about potentiometer

What does potentiometer mean?

potentiometer means "a measuring instrument for measuring direct current electromotive forces". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in potentiometer?

potentiometer has 6 syllables: po-ten-ti-o-me-ter. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for potentiometer?

Close synonyms include pot. 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 potentiometer a common word?

potentiometer 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.