depthometer
An instrument for measuring the depth of water or other liquids.
Noun
- An instrument for measuring the depth of water or other liquids.
- The depthometer is an instrument designed to show the depth of liquids either in open vessels—such as water tanks, vats, ship’s holds, wells, etc.—or of liquids inclosed in vessels under any degree of pressure, as in...
- We determine our position by means of our depthometer and our charts. - 1957, UNITED STATES. CONGRESS. SENATE. COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE Hearings 1957, volume 4, page 150:
- Other support systems included active and passive sonar, altimeter, depthometer, and compass. - 2025 April 17, Wikipedia contributors, “CURV”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
Origin
From depth + -ometer