rhysimeter

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥύσις (rhúsis, “flow”) + -meter.

Noun

rhysimeter (plural rhysimeters)

1. An instrument, acting on the principle of the pitot tube, for measuring the velocity of a fluid current, the speed of a ship, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rhysimeter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)