echometer

A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds and determining the relation of their intervals.

Noun

  1. A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds and determining the relation of their intervals.
    • nothing would be more advantageous than the use of his general Echometer to determine precisely the duration of measures and of beats - 1781, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related...

Origin

From echo- + -meter.

Forms

echometers