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

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Example Sentences

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pulsometer

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

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

From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss

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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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

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