WordNet
n. instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something [syn: measuring instrument, measuring system]
Usage examples of "measuring device".
That they were taken aloft and shewn the Earth as it appear'd from the Distance of the Sun, and that the Navigator of the Vessel us'd a kind of Micrometer, whose Lines were clapp'd to the Diameter of the Earth, and that the measuring device read 8.
The altimeters were not accurate enough, and any form of measuring device suspended from the plane - like a rope of the right length -would blow backwards.
By the standards of Ankh-Morpork, where the common thumb was used as a temperature measuring device, this was health and safety at work taken to extremes.
It was a 5-dimensional measuring device which was precisely tuned to the frequency of the wavefront.
But he left his bags and permitted himself to be led off forward, where Johnny began lecturing on the automatic depth-measuring device.
They had no measurable mass, but if they were energy, they did not register as such on any known measuring device.
And get down some oscilloscopes and a standard-scale vibration-measuring device with extra short-pulse equipment on it.
He took out a laser measuring device, checked the readout, and pointed to the center plasteel door.