Meanings
plural stinkometers
- A device that measures bad smell.
Simpler olfactometric devices have been given a variety of names: osmoscopes, osmometers, scentometers (Barnebey-Cheney, 1963), stinkometers, etc.
[1975, Methods in olfactory research, page 461 more example
Bill Ogle suggests “stinkometers” to be placed, one in the tech area and one at the commissary. They should be so constructed that when your stink passes a certain point and when you pass a certain point, a bell will ring.
1985, Phyllis Fisher, Los Alamos Experience, page 165
Origin
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