cathetometer
/,kæθi'tɔmitә/
📖 中文释义
- n. 高差计
- [化] 测高仪
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. An instrument for the accurate measurement of small
- differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the
- upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same
- column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling
- apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic
- standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or
- depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the
- differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated
- standard.