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词汇	-meter
词根词缀	AHD Collins Dictionary.com Macquarie MWCD NewOxfordEC OED Online Etymology Dictionary SOED WBD Webster Wiktionary -meter suff.（后缀） Measuring device: 计量仪：用以测量的仪器： anemometer. 风速记录仪语源 French -mètre 法语 -mètre from Greek metron [measure] * see mē- ² 源自希腊语 metron [测量] 参见 mē- ² -meter combining form in countable noun indicating an instrument for measuring ⇒ barometer prosody. indicating a verse having a specified number of feet ⇒ pentameter Origin from Greek metron* measure -meter Word Origin 1 a combining form meaning “measure,” used in the names of instruments measuring quantity, extent, degree, etc.: altimeter; barometer. Compare -metry. Origin < New Latin -metrum < Greek métron measure Related Words taximeter -metric absorptiometer accelerometer acetometer acidimeter -meterI. a word element used in names of instruments for measuring quantity, extent, degree, etc., as in altimeter, barometer. [New Latin -metrum, from Greek (see metre¹). Compare meter¹] II. (in words taken from Greek or Latin) a word element denoting a certain poetic measure or rhythmic pattern, depending on the number of feet constituting the verse, as in pentameter, trimeter. [See metre²] III. US → -metre. -meter noun combining form ETYMOLOGY French -mètre, from Greek metron measure : instrument or means for measuring barometer -meter /ˈmiːtə(r)/ combining form 1. in names of measuring instruments ［用于测量仪器名］表示“计”, “仪”, “表”： thermometer. 2. Prosody in nouns denoting lines of poetry with a specified number of measures 【诗韵】表示“（诗的）音步”： hexameter. 词源 from Greek metron 'measure'. -meterin actual use commonly -ˈometer, and in some later formations -ˈimeter, a terminal element in words denoting scientific instruments for automatically measuring something. Many words with this ending, as barometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, thermometer, were formed in the 17th c., and represent mod.L. forms in -metrum (F. -mètre, It. -metro). In these early examples the ending is always appended to Gr. noun-stems, or combining forms in -o, and the mod.L. form shows that it was intended to represent the Gr. µέτρον measure (see metre n.¹); the formation is irregular, as the Gr. word does not occur in combination with ns., and would not correctly express the required notion of ‘instrument that measures’. In the 18th and 19th c. many additional words were formed with this ending on Greek bases, as actinometer, anemometer, chronometer, eudiometer, etc. Near the end of the 18th c. hybrid formations began to be introduced (many of them first occurring in Fr.). In some of these the form of Greek compounds is imitated, as in gasometer, galvanometer, alcoholometer, lactometer, pedometer; in others the combining-vowel i of the Latin first element is retained, as in calorimeter, gravimeter, densimeter, velocimeter. In some late formations -meter is appended to modern words without any attempt to assimilate the form of the first element to that of a Gr. or Latin combining form, as in voltameter, ammeter. Cf. also the names of electrical measuring instruments mentioned under meter n.³ 1 b, which might perhaps be more correctly viewed as examples of the suffixed -meter than as examples of the n. with defining word.Jocular nonce-words in -ometer have been frequently formed; chiefly in imitation of Sydney Smith's foolometer, with the sense ‘a means of measuring or ascertaining the opinion or prevalent character of some class of people’; also occasionally in names of imaginary instruments for measuring the amount or degree of something, as in *obscenometer. Similar hybrid formations have sometimes been adopted as trade names for certain instruments, e.g. comptometer* [F. compte account], a kind of calculating machine, *distance-ometer.1828Athenæum 16 Jan. 44/1 We shall be obliged by an account, for our Scientific Report, of the obscenometer by which the ‘Stock Board’ of the Company are enabled so curiously to apportion the measures of indecency.1859Sat. Rev. VII. 141/2 The member for Birmingham has supplied Parliament with an admirable democratometer, without which it might have been hurried into violent and uncalled-for changes, through a total misapprehension of the real state of public feeling.1864Daily Tel. 29 Oct., Archdeacon Denison..may be..taken as a kind of clericometer for what is most violent and least sensible in the ecclesiastical world.1883Eng. Mech. 6 Apr. p. vii, The New Distanceometer.1894Times 19 Mar. 13/5 The comptometer..is a machine specially adapted for subtraction, multiplication and division. -meter word-forming element meaning "device or instrument for measuring;" commonly -ometer, occasionally -imeter; from French -mètre, from Greek metron "a measure" (see meter, n.2). -meter /ˈmɪtə/ suffix. ORIGIN: Greek metron measure. 1.Prosody. Forming nouns denoting a line of poetry with a specified number of measures, as hexameter, pentameter. 2.Forming nouns denoting measuring instruments: orig. (as in barometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, thermometer) repr. mod. Latin forms in -metrum, with the ending intended to represent the Greek metron measure (see metre noun¹); later in words with the same ending -ometer formed on Greek bases, as anemometer, chronometer, and in hybrid formations, some imitating the form of Greek compounds, as gasometer, galvanometer, pedometer, others with the combining vowel i of the Latin first elem., as calorimeter, gravimeter. In some late formations -meter is appended to mod. words without any attempt to assimilate the form of the first elem. to that of a Greek or Latin combining form, as in voltameter, ammeter. -meter ⇒ Main Entry: -meter -meter ⇒ Main Entry: -metric -meter ⇒ Main Entry: -metry ☞ meter -me·ter* \məd.ə(r), mətə-, esp in words in which a letter other than “o” precedes the “m”, alternatively or only ˌmēd.ə(r) or ˌmētə-\ noun combining form (-s) Etymology: French -mètre, from Greek metron measure — more at measure : instrument or means for measuring < barometer > < calorimeter > < voltameter > -meter Suffix Used to form the names of measuring devices. Etymology From Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”). Usage notes Whereas the spelling of the unit of length varies between British (metre) and American (meter) English, the spelling of this suffix is -meter in both. -metre is a nonstandard alternative form found in British English. Words with the suffix -ometer always has a primary stress on the antepenultimate syllable: barometer, speedometer, tachometer, etc. Words derived from meter (or metre) with a prefix usually have a primary stress on the first syllable: centimeter, millimeter, etc. Derived terms ► English words suffixed with -meter accelerometer acidimeter actinometer aerometer alcoholometer alkalimeter altimeter ammeter anemometer atmometer audiometer barometer bathometer bolometer calorimeter ceilometer cephalometer chronometer clinometer colorimeter coulometer craniometer cryometer cyclometer cytophotometer densimeter densitometer dilatometer dioptometer dosimeter dynamometer electrodynamometer electrometer ergometer erythrocytometer esthesiometer exposure meter extensometer fathometer flowmeter fluorometer flushometer galvanometer gasometer goniometer gravimeter heliometer hemacytometer, hemocytometer hydrometer hygrometer hypsometer inclinometer interferometer intervalometer lactometer light meter Machmeter magnetometer manometer microdensitometer nephelometer odometer ohmmeter olfactometer osmometer oximeter peakflowmeter pedometer penetrameter penetrometer photometer piezometer planimeter planometer pluviometer pneumatometer polarimeter potentiometer psychrometer pulsometer pycnometer pyrheliometer pyrometer radiometer reflectometer refractometer respirometer rheogoniometer rheometer saccharimeter saccharometer salimeter salinometer salometer sclerometer seismometer sensitometer solarimeter sonometer spectrometer spectrophotometer speedometer spherometer sphygmomanometer spirometer strainometer tachometer tachymeter taximeter telemeter tellurometer tensimeter tensiometer thermometer tonometer transmissometer turbidimeter udometer ultramicrometer urinometer variometer velocimeter vinometer viscometer viscosimeter voltammeter voltmeter volumeter wattmeter zymometer
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