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pathometer

pathometer noun: a lie detector.

Noun

pathometer (plural pathometers)

  1. A lie detector.
    • It stated that polygraph evidence, voice stress results, and pathometer exam readings are inadmissible under Frye, even when other evidence corroborates the evidence.1984, United States of America V. Kimberlin, page 15
    • That was not surprising since Kubis was an Associate Professor of Psychology at Fordham University and had taken over the role of chief proselytizer for the pathometer (as the machine was then called) after the death of its inventor, Summers.2014, Kerry Segrave, Lie Detectors: A Social History

Forms of pathometer

pluralpathometers

Origin of pathometer

From patho- + -meter.

Questions about pathometer

What does pathometer mean?
Pathometer means a lie detector.
What part of speech is pathometer?
Pathometer is a noun.
What is the plural of pathometer?
The plural of pathometer is pathometers.

Words near pathometer in the dictionary

  1. pathomechanics
  2. pathomechanism
  3. pathomechanisms
  4. pathomechanistic
  5. pathomechanistically
  6. pathometer
  7. pathometers
  8. pathometric
  9. pathometrics
  10. pathometry
  11. pathomic

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