operameter

English

Etymology

From Latin opera (“work”) (plural of operis), opus + -meter.

Noun

operameter (plural operameters)

  1. (archaic) An instrument or machine for measuring work done, especially the number of rotations by a machine or wheel in manufacturing cloth.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for operameter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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