Slidometer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Slidometer is a noun meaning An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars caused by sudden stopping.
Meaning
An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars caused by sudden stopping.
More Meanings
- A device for measuring the movement of a glacier.
Example Sentences
A. Slidometer used to measure basal sliding rate.
A dynamometer car and a slidometer were used for the purpose of obtaining records of shocks from buffs and jerks .
The average shocks for the four stops were, by one slidometer, four-tenths of an inch and, by the other slidometer, five-tenths of an inch.
The ordinary slidometer results are misleading for the reason that the sliding mass in the testing instrument is not restricted to the path of the car .
Word Forms
- slidometers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include metrograph, tromometer, seismoscope, sillometer, stathmograph, microseismometer.
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