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Metrology
What does it mean to take a measurement? Here are further guidelines. |
| Metric and Customary Units. |
| Measuring instruments (distance) |
| Measuring instruments (light) |
| Measuring instruments (speed) |
| Measuring instruments (density) |
| Measuring instruments (clouds) |
| Measuring instruments (temperature) |
| Measuring instruments (engineering) |
| Measuring instruments (pressure) |
| Measuring instruments (sunshine) |
| Measuring instruments (humidity) |
| Measuring instruments (precipitation) |
| Measuring instruments (surface tension) |
| Measuring instruments (viscosity) |
| Measuring instruments (wind) |
| Metal detectors |
| Measuring instruments (torque) |
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Measuring instruments (air pollution) Measuring instruments (dimension) |
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Blood Pressure Chemistry Engineering Flow Frequency General Metrics Radiation River-level Traffic |
| Test & Measuring Instruments |
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Time measurement device. Atomic clock Calendar (by counting days) Chronograph Clock Egg timer Wall clock Hourglass Pendulum clock Radio clock Radiometric dating Stopwatch Sundial Transit telescope Water clock Power (flux of energy) (see any measurement device for power below) Action A phototube Mechanics |
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Length(distance) Measuring Instruments Altimeter, height Architect's scale Caliper Electronic distance meter Engineer's scale Frequency comb Gauge blocks GPS, indirect by runtime measurement of electromagnetic waves in the GHz-range Interferometer Laser rangefinder, indirect by runtime measurement of coherent electromagnetic waves around the visible light region (lidar) Metric scale Micrometer Odometer Opisometer Feeler gauge, used in metal working to measure size of gaps Radar antenna, indirect by runtime measurement of electromagnetic waves around the microwave region (radar) Rangefinder Ruler Surveyor's wheel Tachymeter Tape measure Taximeter, measure usually includes a time component as well Travelling microscope Ultrasound distance measure, indirect by runtime measurement of sound waves (sonar, Echo sounding) Urethra gauge, cylindrical circumferencial measurement device. |
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Area Planimeter |
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Volume buoyant weight (solids) overflow trough (solids) Measuring cup (grained solids, liquids) Flow measurement devices (liquids) Graduated cylinder (liquids) Pipette (liquids) Eudiometer, pneumatic trough (gases) |
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Mass- or volume flow measurement Gas meter Mass flow meter Metering pump Water meter Speed (flux of length) |
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Airspeed indicator Radar gun, a Doppler radar device, using the Doppler effect for indirect measurement of velocity. Speedometer Tachometer (speed of rotation) Tachymeter Variometer Acceleration Accelerometer Mass Balance Automatic checkweighing machines Katharometer Weighing scales Inertial balance Mass spectrometers measure the mass-to-charge ratio, not the mass Linear momentum Ballistic pendulum Force (flux of linear momentum) Force gauge Spring scale Strain gauge Torsion balance Tribometer |
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Pressure (flux density of linear momentum Anemometer (used to determine wind speed) Barometer used to measure the atmospheric pressure. Manometer see pressure measurement Pitot tube (used to determine speed) Tire-pressure gauge in industry and mobility AngleCircumferentor Cross staff Goniometer Graphometer Protractor Quadrant Reflecting instruments Octant Reflecting circles Sextant Theodolite |
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Angular velocity or rotations per time unit
Stroboscope Tachometer Torque Dynamometer De Prony Brake Torque Wrench Level Dumpy level Laser line level Spirit level Direction Gyroscope Energy carried by mechanical quantities, mechanical work Ballistic pendulum, indirectly by calculation and or gauging Electricity, electronics and electrical engineering Electric charge Electrometer is often used to reconfirm the phenomenon of contact electricity leading to triboelectric sequences. Torsion balance used by Coulomb to establish a relation between charges and force, see above. Electric current (current of charge) Ammeter Clamp meter Galvanometer Voltage (electric potential difference) Oscilloscope allows to quantify time depended voltages Voltmeter Electric resistance, electrical conductance (and electrical conductivity)Ohmmeter Time-domain reflectometer characterizes and locates faults in metallic cables by runtime measurements of electric signals. Wheatstone bridge Electric capacitanceCapacitance meter Electric inductanceInductance meter Energy carried by electricity or electric energyElectric energy meter Electricity meter Power carried by electricity (current of energy)Wattmeter Electric field (negative gradient of electric potential, voltage per length)Field mill Magnetic field Compass Hall effect sensor Magnetometer Proton magnetometer SQUID Combination instruments Multimeter, combines the functions of ammeter, voltmeter and ohmmeter as a minimum. LCR meter, Thermodynamics Temperature Amount of substance (or mole number) Gas collecting tube gases Electromagnetic spectroscopy Galileo thermometer Gas thermometer principle: relation between temperature and volume or pressure of a gas (Gas laws). constant pressure gas thermometer constant volume gas thermometer Liquid crystal thermometer liquid thermometer principle: relation between temperature and volume of a liquid (Coefficient of thermal expansion). Alcohol thermometer Mercury-in-glass thermometer Pyranometer Pyrometers Resistance thermometer solid thermometer Thermistors Thermocouples Thermometer Thermopile Triple Point cell Imaging technology Thermographic camera Energy carried by entropy or thermal energy Actinometer constant-temperature calorimeter, constant-volume calorimeter constant-pressure calorimeter Differential Scanning Calorimeter Reaction calorimeter Entropy constant-temperature calorimeter Heat flux sensor constant-pressure calorimeter, enthalpy-meter, active constant-temperature calorimeter, Entropy production calorimeter Coefficient of thermal expansion Dilatometer Strain gauge Melting temperature (of a solid)Thiele tube Kofler bench Differential Scanning Calorimeter gives melting point and enthalpy of fusion. Boiling temperature (of a liquid) Ebullioscope Density Aerometer liquids Dasymeter gases Gas collecting tube gases Hydrometer liquids Pycnometer liquids resonant frequency and Damping Analyser (RFDA) solids Hardness of a solid Durometer Shape and surface of a solidHolographic interferometer Laser produced speckle pattern analysed. resonant frequency and Damping Analyser (RFDA) Tribometer Deformation of condensed matter Strain gauge all below Elasticity of a solid (elastic moduli)resonant frequency and Damping Analyser (RFDA), Plasticity of a solid Cam plastometer Plastometer Tensile strength, ductility or malleability of a solid Universal Testing Machine Granularity of a solid or of a suspension Grindometer Viscosity of a fluidRheometer Viscometer Optical activity Polarimeter Surface tension of liquids Tensiometer Imaging technology Tomograph Wind tunnel Permittivity, relative static permittivity, (dielectric constant) or electric susceptibility Capacitor Magnetic susceptibility or magnetization Gouy balance Substance potential or chemical potential or molar Gibbs energy Redox electrode Sub-microstructural properties of condensed matter, gas Infrared spectroscopy Neutron detector Radio frequency spectrometers for Nuclear magnetic resonance and for Electron paramagnetic resonance Raman spectroscopy Crystal structureAn X-ray tube Imaging technology, MicroscopeElectron microscope Transmission electron microscope Optical microscope uses reflectiveness or refractiveness of light to produce an image. Scanning acoustic microscope Scanning probe microscope Atomic force microscope (AFM) Scanning electron microscope Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) Focus variation X-ray microscope Rays ("waves" and "particles") Sound, compression waves in matter Laser microphone Seismometer Sound pressuremicrophone or hydrophone properly gauged Shock tube Sound level meter Light and radiation without a rest mass, non-ionizingAntenna (radio) bolometer electromagnetic radiation. camera EMF meter Interferometer used in the wide field of Interferometry Optical power meter Microwave power meter Photographic plate Photomultiplier Phototube Radio telescope Spectrometer T-ray detectors Photon polarizationPolarizer Pressure (current density of linear momentum)Nichols radiometer Integrating sphere Radiation with a rest mass, particle radiation Cathode rayCrookes tube Cathode ray tube, a phosphor coated anode Atom polarization and electron polarizationStern-Gerlach experiment Ionizing radiation Particle and ray fluxBubble chamber Cloud chamber Dosimeter, a technical device realizes different working principles. Geiger counter Microchannel plate detector Photographic plate Photostimulable phosphors Scintillation counter, Lucas cell Semiconductor detector proportional counter ionisation chamber Identification and content Substance content in mixtures, substance identificationCarbon dioxide sensor chromatographic device, gas chromatograph separates mixtures of substances. Different velocites of the substance types accomplish the separation. Colorimeter (measures absorbance, and thus concentration) gas detector Gas detector in combination with mass spectrometer, mass spectrometer identifies the chemical composition of a sample on the basis of the mass-to-charge ratio of charged particles. Nephelometer or turbidimeter oxygen sensor (= lambda sond) Refractometer, indirectly by determining the refractive index of a substance. Smoke detector Ultracentrifuge, separates mixtures of substances. In a force field of a centrifuge, substances of different densities separate. pH: Concentration of protons in a solutionpH meter Saturated calomel electrode Humidity Hygrometer measures the density of water in air Lysimeter measures the balance of water in soil Human senses and human body Sight Luminous flux, photometry Integrating sphere for measuring the total luminuos flux of a light source Illuminance, photometry Densitometer Light meter Lux meter Photometer Hearing Loudness in phon Headphone, loudspeaker, sound pressure gauge, for measuring an equal-loudness contour of a human ear. Sound level meter calibrated to an equal-loudness contour of the human auditory system behind the human ear. Smell Olfactometer, see also the article about olfaction. Temperature (sense and body) Body temperature or core temperatureMedical thermometer, see also infrared thermometer Circulatory system (mainly heart and blood vessels for distributing substances fast)Blood-related parameters are listed in a blood test. Electrocardiograph records the electrical activity of the heart Glucose meter for obtaining the status of blood sugar. Sphygmomanometer, a blood pressure meter used to determine blood pressure in medicine. See also Category:Blood tests Respiratory system (lung and airways controlling the breathing process) Spirometer Concentration or partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the respiratory gasesCapnograph Nervous system (nerves transmitting and processing information electrically)Electroencephalograph records the electrical activity of the brain Musculoskeletal system (muscles and bones for movement) power, work of musclesErgometer metabolic systemBody fat meter Medical imaging Computed tomography Magnetic resonance imaging Medical ultrasonography Radiology Tomograph, device and method for non-destructive analysis of multiple measurements done on a geometric object, for producing 2- or 3-dimensional images, representing the inner structure of that geometric object. Meteorology Navigation and surveying Astronomy Radio antenna Telescope Uncategorized, specialized, or generalized application Checkweigher Densitometer Force platform Gauge (engineering) Gradiometer Parking meter Postage meter S meter Sensor, hypernym for devices that measure with little interaction, typically used in technical applications. Spectroscope is an important tool used by physicists. SWR meter check the quality of the match between the antenna and the transmission line. Time-domain reflectometer locates faults in metallic cables. Universal measuring machine measures geometric locations for inspecting tolerances. |
| List of measuring devices |
| Spectrometer (Mass spectrometry) |