| 释义 |
multimeter Electr.|ˈmʌltɪmiːtə(r)|
[f. multi- 2 + meter n.3]
An instrument designed to measure voltage, current, and usu. resistance, often over several different ranges of value.
The word Multimeter is registered as a proprietary name in the U.S.
1910Hawkins' Electr. Dict. 292/1 Multi-meter, a ‘universal’ electronic measuring instrument designed to serve the purpose of a voltmeter, ammeter, ohmmeter, ground detector and Wheatstone bridge. 1926Jrnl. Sci. Instruments III. 346 The vacuum-tube multimeter has three ranges as a voltmeter, and six ranges as an ammeter for each range of the voltmeter. 1929Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 5 Mar. 23/2 Rawson Electrical Instrument Company, Cambridge, Mass... Multimeter for Electric Meters. Claims use since latter part of 1919. 1967Electronics 6 Mar. 117/1 The Instrumentation division of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. has brought the price of a multimeter down to $249. 1971Nature 12 Feb. 482/1 The 1970 resistance measurements were made with a digital multimeter (Fluke ‘8100A’) to the same accuracy as the 1969 measurements. 1975Physics Bull. Jan. 28/2 Sinclair Radionics new DM2 digital multimeter provides the facilities of the conventional multimeter: ac and dc voltage, ac and dc current ranges and resistance measurements, in a portable instrument. |