pulsometer
(pʌlˈsɒmɪtə(r))
[irreg. f. L. pulsus pulse n.1 + -meter, after barometer, etc.]
1. = pulsimeter.
| 1858 Mayne Expos. Lex., Pulsometrum, term for an instrument for measuring or calculating the variations of the pulse: a pulsometer. |
2. A name for a kind of steam-condensing vacuum-pump, with two chambers so arranged that the steam is condensed in, and the water admitted to each alternately: so called from the pulsatory action of the steam. Also pulsometer pump. (Not being a measuring instrument, it is preferably called pulsator.)
| 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Pulsometer,..a form of vacuum pump. 1881 Mechanical World 24 Dec. Advt., The Pulsometer Engineering Company Limited. 1891 Daily News 2 Sept. 3/1 The water is heated by means of a horizontal tubular boiler, a six-horse power engine, a centrifugal pump, and two pulsometer pumps. 1900 F. T. Bullen Idylls of Sea 265 My heart worked like a pulsometer. |