List of measuring devices
The list of measuring devices created here is sorted according to measured variables and lists the associated measuring devices . As far as the measurement of individual variables is summarized in separate articles, the measuring devices named there should not be listed again here.
A.
- Distance with displacement sensor
- Breath alcohol with an alcohol tester
B.
- Illuminance with light meter , photo cell , lux meter , spot meter
- Acceleration with an accelerometer
- Irradiance with radiometer
- Operating hours of a device with an operating hours counter
- Reactive power with reactive power meter
- Blood pressure in humans with sphygmomanometer
- Blood sugar with blood glucose meter
- Soil moisture with tensiometer
D.
- Strain with strain gauges
- Density of liquids with a hydrometer
- For speed of a shaft, see speed measurement , tachometer
- Pressure with pressure gauge , pressure sensor
- Pressure (differential pressure) with differential pressure sensor , ring balance
- Pressure (in medicine) with sphygmomanometer , tonometer
- Flow with flow meter
E.
- Energy (electrical) with energy meter
- Distance see distance measurement , total station (geodesy)
F.
- For humidity see humidity sensor
- Frequency of an alternating voltage with frequency meter , oscilloscope
- Flight paths of very small birds during migration are tracked using a chiaroscuro geolocator .
G
- Brain activity see electroencephalography (EEG)
- Speed see speed measurement
- Weight → mass, strength
- Glass thickness gauge
H
- Skin moisture with corneometry
- Heart activity (in medicine) with an electrocardiogram (EKG)
- Heart rate with pulse oximeter
- For altitude (above sea level ) see altitude measurement
- Height ( water level ) with level meter
- Height difference with tangentometer
I.
K
- Capacity (electrical) with AC voltage bridge
- Carbon dioxide content in exhaled air with capnometer
- Concentration (gas) with gas sensor , gas warning device
- Body temperature , especially of people with a clinical thermometer
- Force (push and pull) see force measurement , force transducer
L.
- Length with the final dimensions , folding rule (also ruler, yardstick), calipers , odometer , hollow circle , ruler , odometer , measuring tape , ruler , calipers , micrometers , pedometer (pedometer), tenter , dial indicator , Dividers
- Power (electrical, mechanical, radiation) with power meter
- Conductivity (electrolytic) with conductivity meter
- Light spectrum with spectroscope , spectrometer , optical spectrometer
- Plumb direction with plumb line , spirit level
- Air pressure of the atmosphere at the measuring location with barometer , barograph
- Humidity with hygrometer , hygrograph , psychrometer
M.
- Magnetic flux density with magnetometer
- Mass with scales
- Mass of atoms or molecules with mass spectrometer
- Mass flow (in the pipe through which there is a flow) with flow meter
N
- Rainfall with rain gauges , rain gauges
P
- Period duration with counter
- pH value with pH meter
R.
- Noise with psophometer
S.
- Oxygen content of the blood with pulse oximeter
- Sound level with sound level meter
- For inclination see angle measurement # inclination measurement
- Seismic waves with seismograph
- Sunshine duration with sunshine autograph
- Gap with feeler gauge
- Voltage (electrical) with voltmeter , oscilloscope
- Tension (mechanical) with strain gauges
- Spectrum (frequency distribution) (optical) with spectroscope , spectrometer , optical spectrometer ; (electromagnetic and acoustic) with spectrum analyzer
- Dynamic pressure with Prandtl probe
- Radiation (received ionizing) with dosimeter , Geiger counter or Geiger-Müller counter
- Scatter parameters with a network analyzer
- Amperage (electrical) with ammeter
T
- Temperature with thermometer , oven thermometer , roasting thermometer , clinical thermometer
- Temperature (contactless) with infrared thermometer , pyrometer
- Temperature (electrical) with thermocouple , resistance thermometer
- Change in temperature (differential measurement) with Beckmann thermometer
- Depth (river or sea depths) with echo sounder , depth gauge
- Transepidermal water loss with Tewameter
V
- Viscosity (viscosity) with viscometer
- Volume with volumetric meter , volume measurement
- Volume flow (in the pipeline through which there is a flow) with oval wheel flow meter , turbine wheel meter , water meter
W.
- Amount of heat with calorimeter
- Water absorption (water permeability) with water penetration tester
- Wave interference with interferometer
- Wave length (for microwaves ) with wave meter
- Resistance (electrical, ohmic) with an ohmmeter
- Resistance ( alternating current resistance ) with alternating voltage bridge
- Change in resistance (differential measurement ) with Wheatstone measuring bridge
- Wind speed with anemometer
- Wind direction with wind vane
- Angle see angle measurement , goniometer
- Real power with real power meter
- Cloud base with cloud altimeter