Home UK English metrological

Meaning of metrological in English:

metrological

Pronunciation /ˌmɛtrəˈlɒdʒɪkl/

adjective

See metrology

‘The 1907 Nobel Prize for Physics therefore went to Michelson for his ‘optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid’.’
  • ‘A new metrological device promises to speed the development of micromachines.’
  • ‘In Kendal, Dalton started to keep a metrological journal, he made his own thermometers, barometers and other instruments.’
  • ‘The GGTO determination algorithm was designed to use the standard GPS time transfer data whose format and computation procedure are standardized in the metrological community.’
  • ‘The book begins by giving tables of monetary and metrological units.’