Word.ws English Dictionary

depthometer

/dɛpˈθɒmɪtər/

depthometer noun: an instrument for measuring the depth of water or other liquids.

Noun

depthometer (plural depthometers)

  1. An instrument for measuring the depth of water or other liquids.
    • The depthometer is an instrument designed to show the depth of liquids either in open vessels—such as water tanks, vats, ship’s holds, wells, etc.—or of liquids inclosed in vessels under any degree of pressure, as in the case of petrol tanks in some motor cars and other vessels of this kind.1903 December 1, The American Inventor, volume XI, number 11, Washington, D.C.
    • We determine our position by means of our depthometer and our charts.1957, UNITED STATES. CONGRESS. SENATE. COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE Hearings 1957, volume 4, page 150

Forms of depthometer

pluraldepthometers

Origin of depthometer

From depth + -ometer

Questions about depthometer

What does depthometer mean?
Depthometer means an instrument for measuring the depth of water or other liquids.
What part of speech is depthometer?
Depthometer is a noun.
How do you pronounce depthometer?
Depthometer is pronounced /dɛpˈθɒmɪtər/.
What is the plural of depthometer?
The plural of depthometer is depthometers.

Words near depthometer in the dictionary

  1. depthies
  2. depthless
  3. depthlessly
  4. depthlessness
  5. depthness
  6. depthometer
  7. depthometers
  8. depths
  9. depths of field
  10. depthscraper
  11. depthscrapers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: depthometer (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “depthometer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/depthometer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.