Colorimeter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various instruments designed to determine the color of something, by comparison with standard colors or by spectroscopy.

    "It was, however, the need to distinguish specifically between different brown colours which led to the world's first colorimeter."

  2. 2
    a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents wordnet
  3. 3
    An analytic instrument that estimates the concentration of a substance in a sample by measuring its color against the solution's complementary color.

Synonyms

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chromatometertintometer

Example

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"It was, however, the need to distinguish specifically between different brown colours which led to the world's first colorimeter."

Etymology

From color + -meter. Compare Latin color, colōris.

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