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stadiometer
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noun
- an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc, by running a toothed wheel along them
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of stadiometer1
C19: from stadio- , from stadium + -meter
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To do the actual measurements, we rented a Michelson-Fabry-Pérot laser interferometric stadiometer from CERN, a device capable of measuring the littleness of each little woman in each Little Women to subatomic accuracy.
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All it took was one cold shaddak! of the stadiometer, one metallic tap to the top of my head, for a nurse practitioner to bring me crashing down to earth.
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