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UK
/dˈɒsaɪmˌiːtɐ/
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NOUN
- a measuring instrument for measuring doses of ionizing radiation (X-rays or radioactivity)
How To Use dosimeter In A Sentence
- A falsely high reading on a radiation dosimeter may have very different implications during a bioterrorist incident than during a rat lab experiment.
- Rosabeth Carrera stood beside it and pulled off her laminated picture badge from which dangled a dosimeter and several keys. THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
- It is also a storehouse with new breathers, dosimeters and soviet propagandistic literature.
- Electronic dosimeters offer an alternative approach to biological and chemical systems, and they can be used to quantify instantaneous exposure at many time points to assess the magnitude of changing UV radiation exposures.
- The dosimeters also contained a secondary absorbent cartridge that allowed for identification of sample breakthrough.
- Doctors also require a portable dosimeter that enables precise measurement of the daily UV doses in XP patients in order to collect data necessary for the care and treatment of the disease.
- The individual dosimeter is a small instrument - something like a silver fountain pen - and is used by a person for registering the total amount of radioactivity he or she has absorbed after an atomic explosion.
- They think I am a monster parent," says Ikue Sakai, 27, who has two sons ages three and six, and also bought a dosimeter. Moms Turn Activists in Japanese Crisis
- Before long, a Tokyo Electric employee arrived in a company car wearing full protective gear and toting a dosimeter, according to two people who were there. How Japan Stumbled in Forecasting Fallout in One Town
- One of these sensors is a glass dosimeter, which is particularly sensitive to the presence of acids. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories