Meanings
plural colorimeters · alternative colourimeter
- Any of various instruments designed to determine the color of something, by comparison with standard colors or by spectroscopy.
It was, however, the need to distinguish specifically between different brown colours which led to the world's first colorimeter.
2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 113 - analytical chemistryAn analytic instrument that estimates the concentration of a substance in a sample by measuring its color against the solution's complementary color.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From color + -meter. Compare Latin color, colōris.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian колориметър
- колориметър (kolorimetăr)instrument designed to determine color
Catalan colorímetre
- colorímetreinstrument designed to determine color
Chinese Mandarin 色度計 /色度计, 比色計 /比色计
- 色度計 /色度计 (sèdùjì)instrument designed to determine color
- 比色計 /比色计 (bǐsèjì)instrument designed to determine color
Finnish värimittari
- värimittariinstrument designed to determine color
French colorimètre
- colorimètreinstrument designed to determine color
German Kolorimeter
- Kolorimeterinstrument designed to determine color
Italian colorimetro, tintometro
- colorimetroinstrument designed to determine color
- tintometroinstrument designed to determine color
Malay jangka warna, meter warna
- jangka warnainstrument designed to determine color
- meter warnainstrument designed to determine color
- kolorimeterinstrument designed to determine color
Persian رنگسنج
- رنگسنجinstrument designed to determine color
Tagalog kulaysukat
- kulaysukatinstrument designed to determine color
Cite this entry
colorimeter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colorimeter
“colorimeter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colorimeter. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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