calorimeter

English

Alternative forms

• calorimetre (nonstandard)

Etymology

From Latin calor (“warmth, heat”) + -meter.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: kă'lərĭʹmĭtə(r), IPA^(key): /ˌkæləˈɹɪmɪtɚ/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /kaləri.miʈə(r)/
• Rhymes: -ɪmɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

calorimeter (plural calorimeters)

1. (physics) An apparatus for measuring the heat generated or absorbed by either a chemical reaction, change of phase or some other physical change.

Derived terms

• bomb calorimeter
• calorimetric
• calorimetry
• microcalorimeter
• minicalorimeter
• nanocalorimeter

Translations

apparatus for measuring amount of heat

• Asturian: calorímetru m
• Bulgarian: калориметър m (kalorimetǎr)
• Catalan: calorímetre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱量計 / 热量计 (zh) (rèliàngjì), 量熱計 / 量热计 (liàngrèjì)

• Czech: kalorimetr (cs) m
• Finnish: kalorimetri (fi)
• French: calorimètre (fr) f
• Galician: calorímetro m
• German: Kalorimeter (de) n
• Hungarian: kaloriméter (hu)
• Irish: calraiméadar m
• Italian: calorimetro (it) m
• Japanese: 熱量計 (ねつりょうけい, netsuryōkei)
• Malay: jangka kalori, kalorimeter
• Portuguese: calorímetro m
• Russian: калори́метр (ru) m (kalorímetr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: калориметар m

  Latin: kalorimetar (sh) m

• Spanish: calorímetro (es) m

Anagrams

• calorimetre