COLORIMETER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colorimeter mean? 

• COLORIMETER (noun)
  The noun COLORIMETER has 1 sense:

1. a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents

  Familiarity information: COLORIMETER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLORIMETER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

colorimeter; tintometer

Hypernyms ("colorimeter" is a kind of...):

measuring device; measuring instrument; measuring system (instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something)

Derivation:

colorimetric (of or relating to colorimetry)

 Context examples 

A method to measure the absorbance of visible wavelengths of light using a colorimeter.

(Colorimetry, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)