| 单词 |
Tintometer |
| 释义 |
Tintometer|tɪnˈtɒmɪtə(r)|
[f. tint n.1 + -ometer.]
The proprietary name for an apparatus for the exact determination of colour: see quots., and cf. colorimeter.
1889Daily News 9 May 5/7 Royal Society Soiree... Mr. J. W. Lovibond, of Salisbury, exhibited an instrument called the Tintometer, an invention which, by means of numberless slips of coloured glasses, measures colour blindness and differences of colour vision between the two eyes. 1893J. W. Lovibond Measurement of Light & Colour Sensations 3 This work is a record of some investigations on light and colour carried out whilst the author was perfecting a colorimeter, which he terms ‘The Tintometer’. 1895Westm. Gaz. 11 Nov. 3/1 The inventor of a tintometer has told us recently that he can account for 60,000,000 shades of colour. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 433 With the tintometer..three sets of definitely graded glasses are provided. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. vi. 416 Kalle (1938), in his studies of the color of the sea, has introduced a tintometer which permits the color to be expressed as a single equivalent wave length. 1966Trade Marks Jrnl. 17 Aug. 1188/1 Tintometer. B856,033. Colorimeters. The Tintometer Limited... 1st November, 1963.
Hence Tintoˈmetric a., of or pertaining to a tintometer; Tinˈtometry, the use of a tintometer.
1901Buck's Handbk. Med. Sc. II. 58 Dark Box for Estimating Percentage of Hæmoglobin by the Tintometric Method. 1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Tintometry. |
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