Crossword clues for ergometer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ergometer \Er*gom"e*ter\, n. [Gr. ? work + -meter.] (Physics) A device for measuring, or an instrument for indicating, energy expended or work done; a dynamometer. -- Er`go*met"ric, a.
Wiktionary
n. A dynamometer used to measure the work done by muscles.
WordNet
n. measuring instrument designed to measure power [syn: dynamometer]
Wikipedia
Ergometer may refer to:
- Exercise machine, equipped with an apparatus for measuring the work performed by exercising
- Indoor rower, called an ergometer by rowers
- An instrument for measuring the amount of work done by human muscles
Ergometer comes from the Greek words ergon (ἔργον), meaning work, and metron (μέτρον), meaning measure. "Ergometer", therefore, literally means "work measurer". A bike, fitted with mechanical work measurement devices is also an ergometer.
Usage examples of "ergometer".
He turned slowly, the ergometer held gingerly between the two forefingers of each hand in order that the opaque material of the suit should not block off the telltale radiation.
His own secret invasion of the Sun-side, combined with the use of an ergometer, had turned the trick, fortunately.
But Lucky contented himself with sandwiches and catnaps while he and Bigman watched visiplate, gravities and Ergometer in turn.
A single man in a space-suit could only be detected by a gravitic at a hundred yards and by an Ergometer not at all.
In addition to the three times per week on the water, he did an hour a day on his rowing ergometer which occupied the center of his living room.
This had much to do with a lifelong iron regimen on his ergometer, the killer rowing machine used by international oarsmen the world over.
You know, like the ergometers on board ship except that those are bolted to the floor.
An enemy ship could be easily detected by gravities at a distance of miles and by Ergometers at a distance of thousands of miles.
His Ergometers were registering the motors of approaching government ships strongly now.
There, residents can exercise to their cardiovascular delight on Stair-Masters, treadmills, LifeCycles, Nordic Tracks, stationary and recumbent bikes, rowers, cross-country-ski simulators, upper-body ergometers, gravitrons and Cybex resistance equipment.
The Ergometer on the Shooting Starr could pick up the radiation pattern of a hyperatomic motor on ships no larger than an ordinary lifeboat and do it at a distance of better than two million miles.