Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument, such as polarimeter, that indicates the concentration of sugar in a solution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrometer for testing saccharine solutions, used by brewers; a saccharometer.
- noun An optical instrument used to determine the quantity of sugar in a solution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
polarimeter used to measure thesugar content of a liquid
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Examples
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Any cider that will grade 18 or 24 with the saccharimeter in the fall of the year, when it is made, will make good vinegar.
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Kennedy had finished adjusting another instrument which was much like the saccharimeter, only more complicated, when the racing of an engine outside announced the arrival of the party in one of the police department cars.
The Treasure-Train 1908
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It was just a bit, but he dissolved it in some liquid from a bottle on the table, filled one of the clean glass tubes, capped the open end, and placed this tube in the saccharimeter where the first one I noticed had been.
The Treasure-Train 1908
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The saccharimeter had opened the first rift in the haze that surrounded the case.
The Treasure-Train 1908
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"It is a saccharimeter," explained Kennedy, also looking at it,
The Treasure-Train 1908
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Small wonder, then, when French boffin Jean-Baptiste Biot inventor of the saccharimeter for measuring the sweetness of molasses, who calculated the speed of sound through air and sewage pipes and who thought Newton was the bee’s knees turned up in Cambridge, he and George had a bit of a calculus contretemps.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Small wonder, then, when French boffin Jean-Baptiste Biot inventor of the saccharimeter for measuring the sweetness of molasses, who calculated the speed of sound through air and sewage pipes and who thought Newton was the bee’s knees turned up in Cambridge, he and George had a bit of a calculus contretemps.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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