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depthometer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /dɛpˈθɒmɪtər/

Etymology

From depth + -ometer

Meanings

1. An instrument for measuring the depth of water or other liquids.
   • 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:
   • Other support systems included active and passive sonar, altimeter, depthometer, and compass. 2025 April 17, Wikipedia contributors, “CURV”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
   • 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.:

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Relateds

depth sounder · bathometer