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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
tonometer is a noun meaning "measuring instrument for measuring tension or pressure (especially for measuring intraocular pressure in testing for glaucoma)". It carries one recorded sense.
measuring instrument for measuring tension or pressure (especially for measuring intraocular pressure in testing for glaucoma)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tonometer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.