Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A species of hydrometer for determining the richness of milk by its specific gravity. See
hydrometer and lactometer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
lactometer .
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So we have the zoonometer for Galaxy Zoo and the moonometer for Moon Zoo, and we have the galactometer for the Milky Way Project.
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