slidometerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From slide +‎ -o- +‎ -meter.

名詞

slidometer (plural slidometers)

1. An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars caused by sudden stopping.
   • 1893 July, “Westing house Co. on the Karner Brake Trials”, in Locomotive Engineering, page 301:

     The average shocks for the four stops were, by one slidometer, four-tenths of an inch and, by the other slidometer, five-tenths of an inch.

   • 1910 May, Colonel B. W. Durd, “Stresses Developed by collisions of Freight Cars”, in The Official Railway Equipment Register, volume 25, number 6, page 48:

     The ordinary slidometer results are misleading for the reason that the sliding mass in the testing instrument is not restricted to the path of the car .

   • 1917, Clement Clarence Williams, The Design of Railway Location, page 180:

     A dynamometer car and a slidometer were used for the purpose of obtaining records of shocks from buffs and jerks .

2. A device for measuring the movement of a glacier.
   • 2002, C. Simon L. Ommanney, History of Glacier Investigations in Canada, page J-55:

     A. Slidometer used to measure basal sliding rate.