Meaning of slidometer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars caused by sudden stopping.
2. A device for measuring the movement of a glacier.

Examples

“The average shocks for the four stops were, by one slidometer, four-tenths of an inch and, by the other slidometer, five-tenths of an inch.”

“The ordinary slidometer results are misleading for the reason that the sliding mass in the testing instrument is not restricted to the path of the car .”

“A dynamometer car and a slidometer were used for the purpose of obtaining records of shocks from buffs and jerks .”

“A. Slidometer used to measure basal sliding rate.”

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