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scalimetry en · NOUN

Etymology

From scale + -metry.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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 Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: