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RADIOMETER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Meter to detect and measure radiant energy (electromagnetic or acoustic)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("radiometer" is a kind of...):
meter (any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "radiometer"):
Crookes radiometer (electromagnetic radiometer consisting of a small paddlewheel that rotates when placed in daylight)
radiomicrometer (radiometer that is extremely sensitive)
Rayleigh disk (an acoustic radiometer consisting of a light disk suspended from a quartz thread; when exposed to a progressive sound wave its torque can measure velocity)
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