Manometer vs Micromanometer - What's the difference?
manometer | micromanometer |
An instrument to measure pressure in a fluid, especially a double-legged liquid column gauge used to measure the difference in the pressures of two fluids.
* 1872 , The American Journal of Science
* 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow :
As nouns the difference between manometer and micromanometer
is that manometer is an instrument to measure pressure in a fluid, especially a double-legged liquid column gauge used to measure the difference in the pressures of two fluids while micromanometer is a sensitive manometer that can measure very small differences in pressure.manometer
English
(wikipedia manometer)Alternative forms
* manometre (nonstandard)Noun
(en noun)- As soon as the manometer of the pump indicated the maximum of rarification, the apparatus was inclined
- Pökler helped in working out the Halbmodelle solution: bisecting the model lengthwise and mounting it flat-side to the wall of the test chamber, bringing the tubes through that way to all the manometers outside.