Definition of gravimetric in English:
gravimetric
adjectiveˌɡravɪˈmɛtrɪkˌɡrævəˈmɛtrɪk
1Relating to the measurement of weight.
Example sentencesExamples
- All four requirements can be tested by simple gravimetric measurement or by inspection, and all four include quantitative limits.
- The average water content of the bone specimens, measured using gravimetric methods is in the normal range for cortical bone.
- The two chief classes of quantitative analysis, gravimetric and volumetric, were developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- Applying gravimetric methods, the errors might be even higher.
- Briefly, the gravimetric method involved weighing the containers daily using a mobile weighing device for a period of 30 d.
2Relating to the measurement of gravity.
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- Telescopic, gravimetric, and spectrographic scans have revealed fourteen planets in the system.
- This paper briefly reviews the history of cloud physics, then discusses the gravimetric theory of cloud buoyancy.
- The gravimetric technique is less sensitive than the radioactive technique, but it has an advantage in avoiding the corrections for tracer diffusion.
- Warships use energy weapons along with gravimetric based missiles.
- Another problem with airborne measurements is that the aircraft's altitude must be known to within 1 m to attain gravimetric precision of the order of 1 mgal.
Definition of gravimetric in US English:
gravimetric
adjectiveˌɡravəˈmetrikˌɡrævəˈmɛtrɪk
1Relating to the measurement of weight.
Example sentencesExamples
- Applying gravimetric methods, the errors might be even higher.
- The average water content of the bone specimens, measured using gravimetric methods is in the normal range for cortical bone.
- Briefly, the gravimetric method involved weighing the containers daily using a mobile weighing device for a period of 30 d.
- The two chief classes of quantitative analysis, gravimetric and volumetric, were developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- All four requirements can be tested by simple gravimetric measurement or by inspection, and all four include quantitative limits.
- 1.1 Relating to the measurement of gravity.
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- Particle size analysis was performed using the gravimetric method.
- The simplest are the ‘classical’ methods such as titrimetry and gravimetric analysis.
- Analysis of silica content was completed by the gravimetric method.
- The first quantitative analyses were gravimetric analyses (weighing things) that were made possible by the invention of a precise balance.
- The pressure and volumetric tests are suitable for field use, but the gravimetric test is best done in the lab.