a piece of equipment for measuring the hardness of a material, in particular plastic or rubber
His project uses a commercially produced durometer – an instrument to measure thehardness of materials
2.
the measurement of the hardness of a material, in particular plastic or rubber
durometer in American English
(duˈrɑmɪtər, dju-)
noun
a device for measuring the hardness of materials, esp. metals
Word origin
[1885–90; ‹ L dūr(us) hard + -o- + -meter]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: lineup, retread, seminar, toner, twofer-o- is the typical ending of the first element of compounds of Greek origin (as -i- is, in compounds of Latin origin), used regularly in forming new compounds with elementsof Greek origin and often used in English as a connective irrespective of etymology(Franco-Italian; geography; seriocomic; speedometer); -meter is a combining form meaning “measure,” used in the names of instruments measuringquantity, extent, degree, etc. Other words that use the affix -meter include: altimeter, gravimeter, interferometer, micrometer, spectrometer
Examples of 'durometer' in a sentence
durometer
Traditional characterization was carried out by shark fin test device and durometer at both ambient and body temperature.
Giacomo Derchi, Enrico Manca, Amirreza Shayganpour, Antonio Barone, Alberto Diaspro,Marco Salerno 2015, 'Combined Characterization of the Time Response of Impression Materials via Traditionaland FTIR Measurements', Materialshttp://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/8/5/2387. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)