pulsometer

[puhl-som-i-ter]

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noun

a pulsimeter.
a pump without pistons, utilizing the pressure of steam and the partial vacuum caused by the condensation of steam alternately in two chambers.

pulsometer

/ ��ʌ��ˈ��ɒ��ɪ��ə /

noun

another name for pulsimeter
a vacuum pump that operates by steam being condensed and water admitted alternately in two chambers

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pulsometer¹

First recorded in 1855–60; pulse ¹ + -o- + -meter

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When Ivy was working as a nurse, her most important possessions were a fob watch, a pulsometer and a treatment book and bath book, in which details of a patient's care were written by hand.

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Pulsā′tor, a pulsometer: a jigging-machine, used in South African diamond-digging.—adj.

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Your pump would beat the best pulsometer ever put into a mine.

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I'll hold my six against his pulsometer.

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The Savery principle still survives in the action of the well-known pulsometer steam pump.

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pulsimeter pulu

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