multimetern.
/ˈmʌltᵻˌmiːtə/, U.S. /ˈməltiˌmidər/; see also multi- comb. form. An instrument designed to measure voltage, current, and usually also resistance, often over several different ranges of value.
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1907 Electric Railway Rev. Oct. 544 Display of portable wattmeters, bridges, Weston standard cells, multimeters and instruments of precision for laboratory testing.
1910 Hawkins' Electr. Dict. 292/1 Multi-meter, a ‘universal’ electrical measuring instrument designed to serve the purposes of a voltmeter, ammeter, ohmmeter, ground detector and Wheatstone bridge.
1926 Jrnl. Sci. Instruments 3 346 The vacuum-tube multimeter has three ranges as a voltmeter, and six ranges as an ammeter for each range of the voltmeter.
1975 Physics 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.
2006 E. Boysen & N. C. Muir Electronics Projects for Dummies iii. 37 A multimeter is a combo type of testing tool in that it combines the functions of..a voltmeter, an ammeter, and an ohmmeter..in one package.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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