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CALORIMETRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does calorimetry mean?
• CALORIMETRY (noun)
The noun CALORIMETRY has 1 sense:
1. measurement of quantities of heat
Familiarity information: CALORIMETRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Measurement of quantities of heat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("calorimetry" is a kind of...):
measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)
Derivation:
calorimetric (of or relating to the measurement of heat)
Context examples
Chromatography Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with support in the development of chromatography-based analytical methods and scanning calorimetry in studies of cancer and drug development.
(Chromatography Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
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