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.

---

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

---

Etymology

Origin of pulsometer

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

Example Sentences

You know what I mean; they put a pulsometer on a man's wrist and judge by how his heart goes at the pronunciation of certain words.

From The Wisdom of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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

From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold

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

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various