The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gravimetric \Grav"i*met"ric\, a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to measurement by weight; measured by weight. -- Grav"i*met"ric*al*ly, adv.
Gravimetric analysis (Chem.), analysis in which the amounts of the constituents are determined by weight; -- in distinction from volumetric analysis.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context chemistry English) Of or pertaining to measurement by weight. 2 (context geology English) Of or pertaining to measurement of the local gravitational field.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to hydrometry [syn: hydrometric]
Wikipedia
- redirect Gravimetry
Usage examples of "gravimetric".
Gravimetric and Volumetric, in the former of which the final results are weighed, whilst in the latter they are measured.
The high-energy proton spectrpmetry clusters flunked out, too, as did the gravimetric distortion mapping scanner, the fixed angle gamma frequency counter, the wide-angle EM radiation imaging scanner, the quark population analysis counter, the Z-range particulate spectrometry sensor, the low-frequency EM flux sensor, the localized subspace field stress sensor, the parametric subspace field stress sensor, the hydrogen-filter subspace flux scanner, the linear calibration subspace flux sensor, the variable band optical imagining cluster, the virtual aperture graviton flux spectrometer, the high-resolution graviton flux spectrometer, the very low energy graviton spin pola-rimeter, the passive imaging gamma interferometry sensor, the low-level imagining sensor, the virtual particle mapping camera, and even the life-form analysis instrument counter.
We wouldn't be measuring the electromagnetic field strength and the gravimetric effects of the warp field today.
They were all toiling away faithfully, recording every bit and byte of data: optical, infrared, gravimetric, even the neutron scattering spectrometer was running, although we were much too high above the ground for it to capture anything.