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colourimeter

colourimeter is the alternative spelling of colorimeter.

Meaning of colorimeter

Noun

colorimeter (plural colorimeters)

  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.2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 113
  2. (analytical chemistry) An analytic instrument that estimates the concentration of a substance in a sample by measuring its color against the solution's complementary color.

Forms of colourimeter

pluralcolourimeters

Origin of colourimeter

From color + -meter.

Questions about colourimeter

What is colourimeter the alternative spelling of?
Colourimeter is the alternative spelling of colorimeter.

Words near colourimeter in the dictionary

  1. colourfully
  2. colourfulness
  3. colourgravure
  4. colourgravures
  5. colourific
  6. colourimeter
  7. colourimeters
  8. colourimetric
  9. colourimetrical
  10. colourimetrically
  11. colourimetries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colourimeter (page history and authors); colorimeter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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