stadiometern.
/steɪdɪˈɒmɪtə/ 1.
a. Military. = stadia n. (a).
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teleometer1820
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stadiometer1862
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teletopometer1885
stenometer1901
tellurometer1956
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1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xi. §2516 The stadiometer, for judging distance, has been adopted by Government.
b. (See quot. a1884.)
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 849/2 The geographic stadiometer..is designed to show at a single reading the measure of any line, right, curved, or broken, on maps or charts executed on any scale.
c. U.S. Surveying. ‘A modified theodolite in which the directions are not read off, but marked upon a small sheet, which is changed at each station’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
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1871 Heather Math. Instrum. III. 84 Edgeworth's Stadiometer or surveying instrument.
2. An apparatus for measuring a person's height.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring person's height
stadiometer1972
1972 Sunday Times 22 Oct. 65/2 His product range does not end at anthropometers. There is a stadiometer for measuring height to a high degree of accuracy.
1980 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 915 When the child is old enough to stand a special stadiometer can be used to measure height.
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