fluorometer etymology

English word fluorometer comes from English -meter (Used to form the names of measuring devices.), English fluoro- (Fluorescent. Fluorine.)

Detailed word origin of fluorometer

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
-meter English (eng) Used to form the names of measuring devices.
fluoro- English (eng) Fluorescent. Fluorine.
fluorometer English (eng) An instrument used to detect and measure fluorescence.

Words with the same origin as fluorometer

Descendants of -meter
accelerometer altimeter arthrometer barometer calorimeter calorimetry dioptometer dynamometer geoboard geometry glucometer hodometer holometer inclinometer lucimeter pantometer photopolarimeter pulsimeter spectrometer symmetry tachometer tiltmeter trig trigonometry
Descendants of fluoro-
dichlorofluoromethane difluoromethane fluoric fluorobenzene fluorobenzyl fluorocitrate fluorodesulfurization fluorodifen fluorogenic fluorogram fluoroorotic fluorophore fluorophosphate fluorophotometry fluoroprobe fluoropyrrole fluoroscopically fluorosilicic fluorosphere fluorosulfite fluorothymidine fluorotype hydrofluoric pentafluoroethane trichlorofluoromethane