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An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.

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  1. n. An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.
  2. n. An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam.
  3. n. a measuring instrument that determines quantities of heat
  4. 1. (Physiol.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc. 2. (Engineering) An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam.
  5. An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained inbodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, asfriction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.
  6. n:100 n. a measuring instrument that determines quantities of heat