Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Calorimeter

Calorimeter , noun

[Latin calor heat + -meter; compare French calorimètre.]

1.
(Physiology) 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. For combustion processes, a bomb calorimeter may be used.
2.
(Engineering) An apparatus for measuring the proportion of unevaporated water contained in steam.