stinkometer

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noun

A device that measures bad smell.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounstinkometer (plural stinkometers)

plural stinkometers

  1. 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 46
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    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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