Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument used to determine the relative hardness of a material by measuring the pressure required to penetrate the material with a standard diamond stylus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for determining with precision the degree of hardness of a mineral.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device used to measure the
hardness of a material by applyingpressure to a movingdiamond stylus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point
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Examples
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Concrete test hammers, known as sclerometer model "N", are not appropriate, as the impact energy is too high.
Chapter 4 1991
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The range of measurements should be from 0 to 500 or 800 N, which corresponds to a sclerometer known as model "PT".
Chapter 4 1991
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The surface hardness of a block can also be measured in a non-destructive way, using a pendulum sclerometer.
Chapter 4 1991
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