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slidometers

slidometers is the plural of slidometer.

Meaning of slidometer

Noun

slidometer (plural slidometers)

  1. An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars caused by sudden stopping.
    • The average shocks for the four stops were, by one slidometer, four-tenths of an inch and, by the other slidometer, five-tenths of an inch.1893 July, “Westing house Co. on the Karner Brake Trials”, in Locomotive Engineering, page 301
  2. A device for measuring the movement of a glacier.
    • A. Slidometer used to measure basal sliding rate.2002, C. Simon L. Ommanney, History of Glacier Investigations in Canada, page J-55

Questions about slidometers

What is slidometers the plural of?
Slidometers is the plural of slidometer.

Words near slidometers in the dictionary

  1. sliding-rules
  2. slidingly
  3. slidingness
  4. slidings
  5. slidometer
  6. slidometers
  7. slidy
  8. slie
  9. Sliema
  10. slier
  11. sliest

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