| Calorimeter 1. (n.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc. 2. (n.) An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam. Thesaurus Entries calorimeter, chemical detector, clinical thermometer, cryometer, electric thermometer, electronic counter, electronic detector, error corrector, error detector, galvanothermometer, gas thermometer, liquid-level sensor, meat thermometer, metal detector, photoelectric sorter, pyrometer, pyrometric cone, resistance pyrometer, sensor, telethermometer, temperature sensor, thermocouple, thermoelectrometer, thermometrograph, thermostat, ultrasonic detector |