Electrometer

Word ELECTROMETER
Character 12
Hyphenation e lec trom e ter
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Electrometer"

What do we mean by electrometer?

An instrument used for measuring voltage. noun

An instrument for measuring difference of electrostatic potential between two conductors. See potential. noun

An instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity; also, sometimes, and less properly, applied to an instrument which indicates the presence of electricity (usually called an electroscope). noun

See under Balance. noun

A device used to detect and measure static electricity; an electroscope noun

A precision voltmeter that draws almost no current from the circuit noun

Meter to measure electrostatic voltage differences; draws no current from the source noun

A device used to detect and measure static electricity; an electroscope.

A precision voltmeter that draws almost no current from the circuit.

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The word "electrometer" in example sentences

Her sensitive awareness to subtle natural effects were such that Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William's friend and fellow poet, considered her to be the equivalent of a perfect "electrometer" -- a "fragile piece of gold" able to measure tiny changes in electrical pulses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the mid-1880s, Pierre Curie had used minuscule quartz crystals to craft an instrument called an electrometer, capable of measuring exquisitely small doses of energy. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

In the Memoirs of the Roman Academy of Sciences for 1857 he published a description of his new divided ring electrometer, which is based on the old electroscope of Bohnenberger and since then he has introduced ❋ John Munro (1889)

The latest case follows a complaint from two women, one of whom says she was manipulated into handing over 20,000 euros for costly products, including an "electrometer" to measure mental energy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The latest case follows a complaint from two women, one of whom says she was manipulated into handing over €20 000 for costly products, including an "electrometer" to measure mental energy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He also developed numerous other instruments, including the manometer, cyanometer, diaphonometer, anemometer and mountain eudiometer, the first electrometer (1766), a device for measuring electric potential by means of attraction or repulsion of charged bodies, and the first hygrometer, utilizing a human hair to measure humidity (1783). ❋ Unknown (2009)

She says she was pressured to spend more than $28,000 for courses, books, illegally prescribed drugs and an “electrometer” that was supposed to measure fluctuations in her mental state, according to the BBC. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In a postscript, he added, "I bring with me a sensitive thread electrometer with a voltammeter and my institute in Göteborg Högskola, Sweden, will provide me with the necessary resources for my work." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Pierre and Paul-Jacques Curie had already devised an electrometer in the early 1880s based on the piezoelectric effect of quartz crystals. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In the light of the new and slowly emerging field of radiation physics, Marie employed the Curie electrometer in her research, equipped it with an ionization chamber, and transformed it into a reliable tool for ionization measurements. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Carrying an electrometer from crystal to radiation physics, Marie demonstrated that the intensity of the radiation was proportional to the amount of uranium. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In 1875, he received another doctorate, in science on the capillary electrometer, at the Sorbonne. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The physicist set up his quadrant electrometer after a good deal of trouble, but throughout the winter had to struggle constantly with rime forming on the parts of his apparatus exposed to the outer air. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So far as possible, continuous records of the electric potential gradient in the atmosphere were taken, a form of quadrant electrometer with a boom and ink recorder, made by the Cambridge ❋ Unknown (2006)

November to the end of February; they are always attended with strong electrical excitement, a stream of sparks being sometimes produced for an hour at the electrometer. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She had an excellent aid at her disposal - an electrometer for the measurement of weak electrical currents, which was constructed by ❋ Unknown (1996)

Measuring instruments voltmeter ammeter wattmeter with 2 elements electrometer ❋ Klaus Janoske (1991)

In Heidelberg he studied the relationship between electrical and capillary phenomena: this led to the development, amongst other instruments, of his extraordinarily sensitive capillary electrometer. ❋ Unknown (1967)

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