tonometer

1. 1.

   measuring instrument for measuring tension or pressure (especially for measuring intraocular pressure in testing for glaucoma)

   Broadermeasuring instrument

Other forms of tonometer

plural

tonometers·

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 tonometer

What does tonometer mean?

tonometer means "measuring instrument for measuring tension or pressure (especially for measuring intraocular pressure in testing for glaucoma)".

How many syllables are in tonometer?

tonometer has 4 syllables: to-no-me-ter. The stress falls on "no".

Is tonometer a common word?

tonometer 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.