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Definition: HELIOMETER |
HELIOMETERNoun1. An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Measurement | Bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer, pantometer, pluviometer, pneumatometer, pneumometer, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer, telemeter, udometer, vacuometer, variometer, viameter, thermometer, thermistor (heat), barometer (air), anemometer (wind), dynamometer, goniometer (angle) meter; landmark; (limit); balance, scale; (weight); marigraph, pneumatograph, stethograph; rain gauge, rain gage; voltmeter(volts), ammeter(amps); spectrophotometer (light absorbance); mass spectrophotometer(molecular mass); geiger counter, scintillation counter(radioactivity); pycnometer (liquid density); graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume); radar gun (velocity); radar (distance); side-looking radar (shape, topography); sonar (depth in water); light meter (light intensity); clock, watch, stopwatch, chronometer (time); anemometer (wind velocity); densitometer (color intensity). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: HELIOMETER |
| English words defined with "HELIOMETER": Double image micrometer ♦ Heliometrical, Heliometry. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "HELIOMETER": Photoheliometer. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "HELIOMETER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Vietnamese | cái đo mặt trời. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HELIOMETER": heliometers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "HELIOMETER": pyrheliometer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "HELIOMETER": pyrheliometers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "HELIOMETER" (pronounced 'He`li*om"e*ter'): Abutter, Acater, Accelerometer, Accipiter, Acetimeter, Acetometer, Acidimeter, Acoumeter, Acquitter, Acroter, Actinometer, Adelaster, Admitter, Adulter, Aerometer, Aflutter, Aglitter, Airometer, Alabaster, Albuminimeter, Alcalimeter, Aleurometer, Algometer, Alkalimeter, Allotter, Altimeter, Altometer, Ammeter, Amphiaster, Amylobacter, Amylometer, Anemometer, Anglemeter, Angulometer, Animater, Anthracometer, Antimeter, Antitrochanter, Apomecometer, Apporter, Araeometer, Archiater, Archpresbyter, Areometer, Arithmometer, Astrolater, Astrometer, Astrophotometer, Atmidometer, Atmometer, Atter, Audiometer, Auntter, Auster, Auxanometer, Auxometer, Azotometer, Backster, Backwater, Balister, Ballister, Balter, Baluster, Bandmaster, Banquetter, Bargemastter, Barocyclonometer, Baromacrometer, BAROMETER, barretter, Barrister, Bathometer, Baxter, Bdellometer, Beemaster, Beflatter, Begetter, Bemaster, Bemonster, Beplaster, Bergmaster, Bescatter, Besetter, Bespatter, Bewinter, Black-letter, Blanchimeter, Blatter, Blendwater, Bloodletter, Blotter, Bogtrotter, Bolometer, Bonesetter, Boroughmaster, Boulter, Breakwater, Brontometer, Bunter, Burghermaster, Burghmaster, Burgomaster, Buster, Butyrometer, Calc-sinter, Calorimeter, Canaster, Canister, Capellmeister, Carbonometer, Carpenter, Catchwater, Catheter, Cathetometer, Cauter, Cephalometer, Chalkcutter, Chapiter, Chartometer, Cheirepter, Chepster, Chidester, Chitter, Chlorometer, Chondrometer, Chorister, Chowter, Chronometer, Chyometer, Cinter, Circumcenter, Climacter, Clinometer, Clotter, Clyster, Coal-meter, Cockmaster, Coleopter, Colorimeter, Colporter, Colter, Committer, Complotter, Comptometer, Concertmeister, Conchometer, Confederater, Coniroster, Constituter, Contributer, Controverter, Corncutter, Coster, Court-plaster, Craftsmaster, Craniometer, Crater, Cremaster, Criticaster, Cryometer, Culter, Cutter, Cutwater, Cyanometer, Cyclometer, Cymometer, Dabster, Dasymeter, daughter, Declinometer, Deemster, Dekaliter, Dekameter, Demonstrater, Dendrometer, Densimeter, Dentiroster, Desecrater, Desolater, Deter, Diagometer, diameter, Diaphanometer, Diaster, Diathermometer, Dilatometer, Dimeter, Disembitter, Disenter, Dishwater, Disimbitter, Disinter, Dister, Distributer, Divulgater, Doomster, Drillmaster, Drosometer, Drugster, Ductilimeter, Dunter, Durometer, Dynactinometer, Dynameter, Dynamiter, Dynamometer, Echometer, Elaiometer, Elatrometer, Electrepeter, Electrometer, Electroplater, Embetter, Enaunter, Encloister, Endosmometer, Enfester, Enfetter, Enregister, Enshelter, Ergmeter, Ergometer, Eriometer, Ester, Eudiometer, Evaporometer, Exasperater, Executer, Experimenter, Extensometer, Eyewater, feuter, Fibster, Fillibuster, Fillister, Flawter, Fluviometer, Focimeter, Forgetter, Forster, Fouter, Frater, Fresh-water, Fretter, Galactodensimeter, Galactometer, galvanometer, Gamester, gasometer, Geometer, Geothermometer, Getter, Glaucometer, Gleucometer, Globulimeter, Glycosometer, Glyster, goddaughter, goiter, goitre, Goter, Grammaticaster, granddaughter, gravimeter, Great-granddaughter, Hackster, Haemacytometer, Haematachometer, Haematinometer, Haematometer, Haemochromometer, Haemocytometer, Haemodynameter, Haemometer, Haemotachometer, Hagbutter, Hairsplitter, Half-sister, Halometer, hamster, Harmonometer, Hay-cutter, Headwater, Heliolater, helter-skelter, Hemadynamometer, Hematachometer, Hematinometer, Hemipter, Hemoglobinometer, Heteropter, hitter, hodometer, Holometer, holster, Homopter, Horometer, Horopter, Horse-litter, Huxter, Hydrobarometer, Hydrodynamometer, hygrometer, hymenopter, Hypermeter, hypsometer, Iconolater, idolater, Imbitter, Imitater, Impester, Incenter, Inclinnometer, Incloister, Indigometer, Inductometer, Infilter, Inregister, Instanter, Instituter, Interchapter, interferometer, Interpilaster, Intromitter, Ironmaster, Iter, Jetter, jotter, Joulemeter, Jowter, Jupiter, kelter, Kidderminster, Klinometer, Knitster, knitter, Labidometer, Labimeter, Lactobutyrometer, Lactodensimeter, Lactometer, Latinitaster, LAUGHTER, Lepidopter, Lester, Lewdster, limewater, Litraneter, loiter, Longiroster, Lucimeter, Lysimeter, Macerater, Macrometer, Magister, magnetometer, maltster, manometer, manslaughter, Mariolater, Masseter, Masticater, mater, matter, Medicaster, Meliorater, Memoriter, Mesogaster, Meteorometer, Methanometer, Metrometer, Mhometer, Micraster, Microchronometer, micromillimeter, Micronometer, Microseismometer, Microtasimeter, midwinter, minster, Mint-master, Misalter, Misenter, Mismeter, Monometer, Myodynamiometer, Myodynamometer, Natter, Nauropometer, Nephelodometer, Nephelometer, Neuropter, news-letter, Nilometer, Nitrometer, Nitter, Nutter, Obiter, Octameter, OEnometer. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-i-l-m-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: homelier, hotelier, telomere. | |
-3 letters: eremite, mothier, motlier, theorem, thermel. | |
-4 letters: eelier, either, elmier, emoter, eolith, etoile, heeler, helmet, hereto, heriot, hermit, hetero, holier, homier, liroth, lither, loiter, meeter, melter, merlot, meteor, metier, milter, mither, moiler, molter, mother, motile, omelet, reemit, reheel, remeet, remelt, remote, retile, retime, teemer, telome, therme, toiler. | |
-5 letters: eerie, elemi, elite, emeer, emote, ether, helio, helot, homer, hotel, ither, lethe, lirot, liter, lithe, litho, litre, melee, merit, merle, meter, metre, metro, miler, mirth, miter, mitre, mohel, moire, morel, motel, oiler, oriel, other, rehem, relet, relit, remet, remit, reoil, retem, retie, teloi, their, theme, there, therm, thiol, thirl, thole, three, throe, tiler, timer, toile, triol. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-i-l-m-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: heliometers. | |
+3 letters: nephelometric, pyrheliometer. | |
+4 letters: cephalometries, motherlinesses, nephelometries, pyrheliometers, stereochemical, thermoelectric. | |
+5 letters: electrochemical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 4C 49 4F 4D 45 54 45 52 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .-.. .. --- -- . - . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01001100 01001001 01001111 01001101 01000101 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E L I O M E T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 004C 0049 004F 004D 0045 0054 0045 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42394643494739543952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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