slidometer
Noun
An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars caused by sudden stopping.
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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.
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 .
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A dynamometer car and a slidometer were used for the purpose of obtaining records of shocks from buffs and jerks .
A device for measuring the movement of a glacier.
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A. Slidometer used to measure basal sliding rate.
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slidometers