† metrometern.1
Obsolete.
= metronome n. 1.
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metrometer1769
plexichronometer1786
rhythmometer1812
metronome1816
chronometer1837
plummet1844
accentuator?1845
M1904
1769 tr. J. J. Rousseau App. to Grassineau's Musical Dict. 9 A peculiar kind of pendulum, which was designed to determine exactly the movements in music... It is thirty years since the project of such an instrument appeared, under the name of a Metrometer, which of itself beat time.
1826 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts 10 176 Elementary exercises, which consist in chaunting different pieces, the rhythm of each of which corresponds with various movements of the legs, arms and body, which the pupils execute on the spot. A metrometer (metronome) regulates these motions.
1841 J. F. Warner tr. G. Weber Gen. Music Teacher iii. 74 Various machines have been invented and proposed since the seventeenth century, under the names of Measure-measurers, Measure-clocks,..Rhythmometers, Metrometers, Measure-indicators, [etc.].
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 291/1 Metrometer, (metronome).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† metrometern.2
Surgery. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
An instrument for measuring the size of the uterus; a uterine sound. Cf. hysterometer n. at hystero- comb. form2 1.
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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Metrometrum, the same as hysterometrum.]
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1429/2 Metrometer,..an instrument for measuring the size of the womb.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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