colorimeter

English

Alternative forms

• colourimeter

Etymology

From color +‎ -meter. Compare Latin color, colōris.

Noun

colorimeter (plural colorimeters)

1. Any of various instruments designed to determine the color of something, by comparison with standard colors or by spectroscopy.
   • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 113:

     It was, however, the need to distinguish specifically between different brown colours which led to the world's first colorimeter.

2. (analytical chemistry) An analytic instrument that estimates the concentration of a substance in a sample by measuring its color against the solution's complementary color.

Derived terms

• microcolorimeter
• photocolorimeter

 

Related terms

• colorimetric
• colorimetrical
• colorimetrically
• colorimetry

 

Translations

instrument designed to determine color

• Bulgarian: колориметър m (kolorimetǎr)
• Catalan: colorímetre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 色度計／色度计 (zh) (sèdùjì), 比色計／比色计 (zh) (bǐsèjì)

• Finnish: värimittari
• French: colorimètre (fr) f
• German: Kolorimeter m
• Italian: colorimetro (it) m, tintometro m
• Kazakh: колориметр (kolorimetr), түс өлшегіш (tüs ölşegış)
• Malay: jangka warna, meter warna, kolorimeter
• Persian: رنگ‌سنج (fa)
• Tagalog: kulaysukat