gravimeter

IPA: grˈævʌmitɝ

(physics) An instrument used to measure local variations in the gravitational field.
(physics) A hydrometer.

Examples of "gravimeter" in Sentences

It was called a gravimeter, and it sat in a huge glass-and-wood cabinet like the ones you see at the Smithsonian or the British Museum.
But you can get it strange wrathfully the teasingly undismayed all terrain truck deterrent that premier it, and we gave him the web gravimeter.
If heavy element deposits are hidden underneath, the gravimeter will react promptly by showing strong fluctuations in the local gravity field. "
An experiment probing for anomalous vertical gravity on Earth, which has already been performed by us, uses the highest-resolution atomic gravimeter so far.
Using a sensitive gravimeter (as in reading microgals for use in geophysical exploration) one can take readings at several different heights above the floor.
Ray and his team were not just taking pictures they were using all kinds of instruments including a magnetometer, gravimeter, microdensitometer, spectrometer etc.
"The proposed gravimeter setup is largely inspired by these amazing advances, and it uses the simplest possible configuration of replicas of a uniform synthetic field, which can be created easily in
The experiment does not yet yield a gravity measurement of great accuracy, but the researchers believe the technique could lead to a workable "gravimeter" small enough to use in navigation systems that depend on acceleration measurements.