Word Meanings - SPIROSCOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A wet meter used to determine the breathing capacity of the lungs.

Related words: (words related to SPIROSCOPE)

• METERGRAM
  A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.
• DETERMINE
  1. To come to an end; to end; to terminate. He who has vented a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone. 2. To come to a decision;
• METERAGE
  The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.
• BREATHLESS
  1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. 2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow
• METER; METRE
  1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian
• BREATHABLE
  Such as can be breathed.
• DETERMINER
  One who, or that which, determines or decides.
• METER
  1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter. 2. An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and
• BREATHER
  1. One who breathes. Hence: One who lives. One who utters. One who animates or inspires. 2. That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.
• BREATHING
  1. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth. 2. Air in gentle motion. 3. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit. 4. Aspiration; secret prayer.
• BREATHLESSLY
  In a breathless manner.
• BREATHLESSNESS
  The state of being breathless or out of breath.
• DETERMINEDLY
  In a determined manner; with determination.
• BREATH
  OHG. bradam steam, vapor, breath, G. brodem, and possibly E. Brawn, 1. The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration, air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. Melted
• CAPACITY
  Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• BREATHFUL
  Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant.
• DETERMINED
  Decided; resolute. "Adetermined foe."" Sparks.
• BREATHABLENESS
  State of being breathable.
• VACUOMETER
  An instrument for the comparison of barometers. An apparatus for the measurement of low pressures.
• PNEUMONOMETER
  A spirometer; a pneumometer.
• ACIDIMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. Ure.
• ALTIMETER
  An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.
• PNEOMETER
  A spirometer.
• LYSIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.
• AUXOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a lens or system of lenses.
• ALGOMETER
  An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin. -- Al*gom"e*try , n. -- Al`go*met"ric , *met"ric*al , a. --Al`go*met"ric*al*ly, adv.
• ATMOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.
• BAROCYCLONOMETER
  An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.
• AZOTOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer.
• HODOMETER
  See ODOMETER
• DIATHERMOMETER
  An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat- conducting power of liquids.
• MISMETER
  To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. Chaucer.
• VOLUMENOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
• MICRONOMETER
  An instrument for noting minute portions of time.
• TINTOMETER
  An apparatus for the determination of colors by comparison with arbitrary standards; a colorimeter.
• COULOMB METER
  Any instrument by which electricity can be measured in coulombs.
• HAEMADROMETER; HAEMADROMOMETER
  See HEMADROMETER