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单词 launder-ometer
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Launder-Ometern.

Brit. /ˌlɔːndəˈrɒmᵻtə/, U.S. /ˌlɔndəˈrɑmədər/, /ˌlɑndəˈrɑmədər/
Forms: Also Launderometer, launderometer.
Etymology: < launder v. + -ometer comb. form.
Originally U.S.
The proprietary name of a machine for making standard laundry tests, consisting of a number of jars clamped to a rotating shaft in which the washing is carried out.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > washing-machine > laundry-testing machine
Launder-Ometer1928
1928 Amer. Dyestuff Reporter XVII. 731/2 We will now..introduce to you this machine, which we have baptised the ‘Launder-Ometer’... It was originally invented or devised by one of our fellow members, Hugh Christison.
1929 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 21 May 591/1 Launder-Ometer. For laundry washing machines. Claims use since April 27, 1928.
1938 Year Bk. Amer. Assoc. Textile Chemists & Colorists XV. 138 The Launder-Ometer..consists of a heavily constructed copper tank.., supported upon a rigid angle-iron frame. Within this tank there is a brass and aluminum rotor that carries the twenty standard pint jars in which the tests are made.
1958 Observer 30 Mar. 11/5 Cotton and other coloured materials are tested in a launderometer, a machine which reproduces as many domestic washes as are considered necessary.
1961 K. Durham Surface Activity & Detergency ix. 229 The Launderometer..is merely a tank containing a simple mechanism for holding and rotating jars, each containing steel balls, into which the fabric and solution are placed; the jars are rotated and the steel balls provide agitation. The rate of rotation and the weight of the balls are both variable.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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