refractometer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English refract

Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.

Latin -o-bor.

English -o-

Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Hellenic *-tron

Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)

Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.

English -meter

English refractometer

From refract + -o- + -meter.

Noun

refractometer (plural refractometers)

1. (physics) An optical instrument used to measure the refractive index of a substance.

Derived terms

• Abbe refractometer
• keratorefractometer

Related terms

• refractometric
• refractometry

Translations

instrument used to measure the refractive index

• Catalan: refractòmetre m
• French: réfractomètre (fr) m
• Galician: refractómetro m
• German: Refraktometer (de) n
• Greek: διαθλασίμετρο (el) n (diathlasímetro)
• Hungarian: refraktométer
• Italian: rifrattometro (it) m
• Malay: refraktometer (ms)
• Portuguese: refratómetro (Portugal), refratômetro m (Brazil)
• Romanian: refractometru (ro) n
• Spanish: refractómetro (es) m
• Uzbek: refraktometr (uz)