serimetern.

Brit.

/sᵻˈrɪmᵻtə/, U.S.

/səˈrɪmᵻdər/

Forms: 1800s– serimetre, 1900s– serimeter.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French sérimètre.

Etymology: < French sérimètre (1860 or earlier denoting an instrument attributed to someone with the surname Froment (compare quot. 1861); 1838 or earlier denoting an apparently different instrument attributed to someone with the surname Johanys) < seri- (in classical Latin sēricum silk: see Seric adj.) + French -mètre -meter comb. form².

Textiles. Now rare.

A device for testing the strength of silk thread. Cf. serigraph n. 1.

ΚΠ

1861 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 81 273 The Serimetre.—We cannot leave the subject of silk without mentioning the interesting machine invented by Froment for the purpose of determining the relative tenacity and elasticity of different kinds of silk.

1904 T. Wardle Kashmir xvii. 269 Silk-winders, reels, serimetres and serigraphs..are used for analyzing the threads of each cocoon.

1922 Rep. Raw Silk Classif. Comm. (Silk Assoc. Amer.) ii. 42 The strands shall be placed in the serimeter, inspected again to make sure they are clean, and the breaking point determined.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	serimeter
释义	serimetern. Brit. /sᵻˈrɪmᵻtə/, U.S. /səˈrɪmᵻdər/ Forms: 1800s– serimetre, 1900s– serimeter. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French sérimètre. Etymology: < French sérimètre (1860 or earlier denoting an instrument attributed to someone with the surname Froment (compare quot. 1861); 1838 or earlier denoting an apparently different instrument attributed to someone with the surname Johanys) < seri- (in classical Latin sēricum silk: see Seric adj.) + French -mètre -meter comb. form². Textiles. Now rare. A device for testing the strength of silk thread. Cf. serigraph n. 1. ΚΠ 1861 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 81 273 The Serimetre.—We cannot leave the subject of silk without mentioning the interesting machine invented by Froment for the purpose of determining the relative tenacity and elasticity of different kinds of silk. 1904 T. Wardle Kashmir xvii. 269 Silk-winders, reels, serimetres and serigraphs..are used for analyzing the threads of each cocoon. 1922 Rep. Raw Silk Classif. Comm. (Silk Assoc. Amer.) ii. 42 The strands shall be placed in the serimeter, inspected again to make sure they are clean, and the breaking point determined. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1861
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