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slidometer en · NOUN

Etymology

From slide + -o- + -meter.

Meanings

1. An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars caused by sudden stopping.
   • A dynamometer car and a slidometer were used for the purpose of obtaining records of shocks from buffs and jerks . 1917, Clement Clarence Williams, The Design of Railway Location, page 180:
   • The ordinary slidometer results are misleading for the reason that the sliding mass in the testing instrument is not restricted to the path of the car . 1910 May, Colonel B. W. Durd, “Stresses Developed by collisions of Freight Cars”, in The Official Railway Equipment Register, volume 25, number 6, page 48:
   • 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:

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