Word.ws English Dictionary

scalimetry

scalimetry noun: the estimation of the age of fish by examination of concentric peaks on their scales.

Noun

scalimetry (uncountable)

  1. The estimation of the age of fish by examination of concentric peaks on their scales
    • Age, determined by scalimetry, was used as variable of adjustment for mean size comparisons.2015 November 12, “When Anthropogenic River Disturbance Decreases Hybridisation between Non-Native and Endemic Cyprinids and Drives an Ecomorphological Displacement towards Juvenile State in Both...

Origin of scalimetry

From scale + -metry.

Questions about scalimetry

What does scalimetry mean?
Scalimetry means the estimation of the age of fish by examination of concentric peaks on their scales.
What part of speech is scalimetry?
Scalimetry is a noun.

Words near scalimetry in the dictionary

  1. scalie
  2. scalier
  3. scalies
  4. scaliest
  5. scalily
  6. scalimetry
  7. scaline
  8. scaliness
  9. scaling
  10. scaling back
  11. scaling down

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scalimetry (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: “scalimetry.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/scalimetry. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.