Definitions for radiometer

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radiometer ra·di·om·e·ter

Spelling: [rey-dee-om-i-ter]

IPA: /ˌreɪ diˈɒm ɪ tər/

Radiometer is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 600 anagrams from letters in radiometer (adeeimorrt).

Definitions for radiometer

noun

1. Also called Crookes radiometer. an instrument for demonstrating the transformation of radiant energy into mechanical work, consisting of an exhausted glass vessel containing vanes that revolve about an axis when exposed to light.
2. an instrument for detecting and measuring small amounts of radiant energy.

Origin of radiometer

First recorded in 1870-75; radio- + -meter

Examples for radiometer

The latest use to which the radiometer has been put was to test the viscosity of gases at decreasing pressures.

The first endeavor led to the construction of the radiometer.

Instead of using the fan in this experiment, we may use the "electric" radiometer with similar effect.

The monitors were synchronized with the radiometer and changed view at every ten-mile marker.

The spectroscope and the radiometer are more wonderful than any ‘supernatural’ thing yet heard of.

Count Bathyani recently took up a radiometer to a height of about a mile.

Thus it appears that we have been able to show by very definite experimental evidence that the radiometer is a heat engine.

To a radiometer (fig. 6) with attached charcoal bulb B was sealed a tube ending in a small bulb A containing a globule of mercury.