colorimeter

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Etymology

From color +‎ -meter. Compare Latin color, colōris.

Noun

colorimeter (plural colorimeters)

  1. Any of various instruments designed to determine the color of something, by comparison with standard colors or by spectroscopy.
    • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 113:
      It was, however, the need to distinguish specifically between different brown colours which led to the world's first colorimeter.
  2. (analytical chemistry) An analytic instrument that estimates the concentration of a substance in a sample by measuring its color against the solution's complementary color.

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