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Answer for the clue "Meter to detect and measure radiant energy (electromagnetic or acoustic) ", 10 letters:
radiometer

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Word definitions for radiometer in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. meter to detect and measure radiant energy (electromagnetic or acoustic)

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Radiometer is a company founded in 1935 with headquarters in Copenhagen , Denmark . They have 2,200 employees worldwide and had sales of USD 496 million in 2010. The first pH meters specialized for medical use were marketed around 1936 by Radiometer in ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Radiometer \Ra`di*om"e*ter\ (r[=a]`d[i^]*[o^]m"[-e]*t[~e]r), n. (Naut.) A forestaff. (Physics) An instrument designed for measuring the mechanical effect of radiant energy. Note: It consists of a number of light disks, blackened on one side, placed at the ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A device that measures radiant energy.

Usage examples of radiometer.

The radiometer went almost down to black, and he released a bubble of relief.

At the same time he saw no particular harm in letting him use the radiometer, if that was what it was.

When the big doors were open Grushko climbed into the back and, with the radiometer switched on, he walked the length of the container and back again.

A loud knock summons Tanya to the door where she finds herself confronted by several men wearing radiation suits and carrying a radiometer before them like some small ark of the convenant.

Kaplan replied, quite properly, that the infrared radiometer experiment was not designed to test such questions, nor did it.

The new infrared radiometer on which Rick worked was solely a receiving unit.

Because different objects have different capacities to retain heat, the radiometer could distinguish between them.

The radiometer itself was a small aluminum rectangular cake tin, its bottom covered with black polka dots, the infrared sensors.

The radiometer sensor dish fitted into one end and the image tube into the other.

The radiometer projected out nearly a foot in front of his face, suspended from the helmet by aluminum rods.

Jan held something that flared in the radiometer tube, something so bright that it had a halo like a bright ring around it.

I had the IR radiometer helmet on, and I could see the girls fine, so I knew they were okay, but I also saw that Jan was kneeling on the carpet and holding a miniature sun in her hands.

Rick, you say the stone was so bright in the radiometer that it had a halo?

Specialized kinds of radiometer include the dosimeter, gamma spectrometer, and Geiger counter.

We use ASTER technology, Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer instruments built into various satellite platforms to track groupings of gases associated with decomposition.