an Odometer measures hodós:
wikipedia: The word derives from the Greek words hodós ("path" or "gateway") and métron
("measure").
In countries where Imperial units or US customary units are used, it is sometimes called a mileometer or milometer, or,
colloquially, a tripometer.
Tim Gruene wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, but you need to know the 'geo' has to do with earth, so geometers measure the earth to make maps, odo, I believe has to do with smell, and kilometer is hyphenated kilo-meter, no kil-ometer, so the origin of that word is nothing to do with 'ometer'. Remembering stuff from your school days help a great deal understanding the world around you ;-) Best, Tim On 06/20/2013 01:14 AM, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote:Wait, so a geometer measures ges, an odometer measures ods, and a kilometer measures kils? --dvd On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Tim Gruene wrote: Dear Ed, to me, an '-ometer' is a device that measures whatever you put in front of the 'o', so in case of a diffractometer that's a device that measures diffraction. Best, Tim On 06/19/2013 08:11 PM, Edward A. Berry wrote:Somewhere I got the idea that a diffractometer is an instrument that measures one reflection at a time. Is that the case, and if so what is the term for instruments like rotation camera, weisenberg, area detector? (What is an area detector?). Logically I guess a diffractometer could be anything that measures diffraction, and that seems to be view of the wikipedia article of that name. eabBest wishes, --Gerard ****************************************************************** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:[email protected] ****************************************************************** The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ****************************************************************** Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! ******************************************************************- -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFRwmb2UxlJ7aRr7hoRAm3QAKCtXvSgkJsdEsyTHlZcNIRA4HPn/ACfTdil j50Wu3GYaoAEl8RNIDAd92M= =nZ6U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
