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sonometer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sonome-ter
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An audiometer (device for gauging the hearing).

noun

An instrument for measuring sounds or their intervals by means of a sounding board with strings stretched above it, movable bridges, and weights for varying the tension.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- Proto-Indo-European *swónh₂os Latin sonus English sono- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Hellenic *-tron Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron) Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)lbor. French -mètrebor. English -meter English sonometer From sono- + -meter.

Inflected Forms

sonometers (plural)

Synonyms

audiometer

Rhymes With

thermometer kilometre kilometer barometer spectrometer speedometer magnetometer potentiometer spectrophotometer hydrometer hygrometer photometer

Questions

What does sonometer mean?
An audiometer (device for gauging the hearing).
Where does sonometer come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂- Proto-Indo-European *swónh₂os Latin sonus English sono- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Hellenic *-tron Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron) Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)lbor. French -mètrebor. English -meter English sonometer From sono- + -meter.

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