Crossword-Solution: BOLOMETER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bolometer | n. | An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance, thermic balance. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “BOLOMETER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| RADIANT heat, electrical measuring instrument of | 1 answer |
| HEAT radiation measuring instrument | 2 answers |
| INSTRUMENT for measuring | 38 answers |
| MEASURING instrument | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
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greedy person
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Sentences with BOLOMETER (5)
Then Kennedy began carefully examining the bolometer and some other recording instruments he had, while the rest of us watched, fascinated.
Kennedy lost no time in confirming the suspicions of his bolometer as to the cause of the death of the two innocent victims of the machinations of the Clutching Hand.
Though the last-named investigator has extended our knowledge of it to a point much beyond the lowest visible ray, there yet remains a still remoter region, more extensive than the whole visible spectrum, the study of which has been entered on at Alleghany, by means of the linear bolometer.
Abney's photographs of the region between pi = 8,000 and pi = 12,000, to think that these gaps are produced by the aggregation of finer lines, which can best be discriminated by the camera, an instrument which, where it can be used at all, is far more sensitive than the bolometer; while the latter, I think, has on the other hand some advantage in affording direct and trustworthy measures of the amount of energy inhering in each ray.
The bolometer, which I have here, is an instrument depending upon principles which I need not explain at length, since all present may be presumed to be familiar with the success which has before attended their application in another field in the hands of the President of this Association.