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Clinometer. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Clinometer [f. CLINO- + μέτρον measure.] A measurer of slopes and elevations.

1   1.  An instrument for measuring the dip of mineral strata or for determining the slope of cuttings, embankments, etc.; also for taking altitudes.

2 1811.  Edin. Rev., XIX. 222. The compass for measuring the bearings of the strata, and the clinometer for estimating their dip.

3 1869.  Phillips, Vesuvius, viii. 240, note. By an observation with our clinometer the height seemed greater.

4 1879.  Le Conte, Elem. Geol., 176. A clinometer…. The most convenient form is a pocket compass containing a pendulum to indicate the angle of dip.

5   2.  Applied to various other instruments for measuring (a.) the angle of elevation of a rifle; (b.) the roll of a ship at sea; also (c.) ‘a carpenter’s tool for levelling up sills and other horizontal framing-timbers’ (Knight, Dict. Mech.).

6 1864.  Daily Tel., 20 Aug., 5/5. Competitors may use the clinometer to take the angle of elevation…. The clinometer may also be used to re-adjust the angle of elevation during trial.

7 1885.  Lady Brassey, The Trades, 18–9. The clinometer … having registered a roll of 50° to port and 40° to starboard on the night of the storm, judiciously declined to register any more.

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