As for Gerard's follow up, I remind him of the immortal wisdom of Jack
Handey:
"Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself.
Basically, it's made up of two separate words ? "mank" and "ind." What do
these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind."
I agree with Tim on this one. A "diffract-o-meter" is a device for
measuring diffraction. Yes, at one time a Geiger counter attached to a
4- or 5-circle rotation stage was the only kind of "diffractometer", but
that is no reason to make the term exclusive to the original device.
As for Gerard'
No, a kilometer is what they use in shooter video games.
On 20/06/2013 08:49, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote:
So, in SI units it would be a kilometerometer?
--dvd
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Edward A. Berry wrote:
an Odometer measures hod?s:
wikipedia: The word derives from the Greek words hod?s ("path
So, in SI units it would be a kilometerometer?
--dvd
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Edward A. Berry wrote:
an Odometer measures hod?s:
wikipedia: The word derives from the Greek words hod?s ("path" or "gateway")
and m?tron ("measure").
In countries where Imperial units or US customary units are used, i
Dear Colleagues,
If we may combine Ethan's quote from Stout and Jensen with Tim's meter:-
With film the estimating of a spot's blackness by eye is not a meter, it
originally was a person's eye aided by a reference strip of blackened graduated
spot exposures.
With measuring devices the subjectivit
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:
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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
Wait, so a geometer measures ges, an odometer measures ods, and a kilometer
measures kils?
--dvd
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Tim Gruene wrote:
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Dear Ed,
to me, an '-ometer' is a device that measures whatever you put in
front of the 'o', so in case of a
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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 ide
On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:11:01 am 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 a
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
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