-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, but you need to know the 'geo' has to do with earth, so geometers measure the earth to make maps, odo, I believe has to do with smell, and kilometer is hyphenated kilo-meter, no kil-ometer, so the origin of that word is nothing to do with 'ometer'. Remembering stuff from your school days help a great deal understanding the world around you ;-)
Best, Tim On 06/20/2013 01:14 AM, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: > Wait, so a geometer measures ges, an odometer measures ods, and a > kilometer measures kils? > > --dvd > > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, Tim Gruene wrote: > > Dear Ed, > > to me, an '-ometer' is a device that measures whatever you put in > front of the 'o', so in case of a diffractometer that's a device > that measures diffraction. > > Best, Tim > > On 06/19/2013 08:11 PM, Edward A. Berry wrote: >>>> Somewhere I got the idea that a diffractometer is an >>>> instrument that measures one reflection at a time. Is that >>>> the case, and if so what is the term for instruments like >>>> rotation camera, weisenberg, area detector? (What is an area >>>> detector?). >>>> >>>> Logically I guess a diffractometer could be anything that >>>> measures diffraction, and that seems to be view of the >>>> wikipedia article of that name. eab >>>> > >> > > > Best wishes, > > --Gerard > > ****************************************************************** > Gerard J. Kleywegt > > http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se > ****************************************************************** > The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to > actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. > ****************************************************************** > Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius > and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is > equal to pi*z*z*a ! > ****************************************************************** > - -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFRwmb2UxlJ7aRr7hoRAm3QAKCtXvSgkJsdEsyTHlZcNIRA4HPn/ACfTdil j50Wu3GYaoAEl8RNIDAd92M= =nZ6U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
