pulsometer

American  

[puhl-som-i-ter] / pʌlˈsɒm ɪ tər /

noun

1. a pulsimeter.

2. a pump without pistons, utilizing the pressure of steam and the partial vacuum caused by the condensation of steam alternately in two chambers.

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pulsometer British  

/ pʌlˈsɒmɪtə /

noun

1. another name for pulsimeter

2. a vacuum pump that operates by steam being condensed and water admitted alternately in two chambers

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Etymology

Origin of pulsometer

First recorded in 1855–60; pulse ¹ + -o- + -meter

Example Sentences

When Ivy was working as a nurse, her most important possessions were a fob watch, a pulsometer and a treatment book and bath book, in which details of a patient's care were written by hand.

From BBC

Pulsā′tor, a pulsometer: a jigging-machine, used in South African diamond-digging.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

Your pump would beat the best pulsometer ever put into a mine.

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The Savery principle still survives in the action of the well-known pulsometer steam pump.

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The bottom of the tank is fully 3 meters below the level of the Danube Canal, which passes close by, and it was not until twelve large pulsometer pumps were set up, and worked continually night and day, that it was possible to reach the necessary depth to allow of the commencement of the foundations of the boundary wall.

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