Piezometer (Gr. piezō, 'I press,' metron, 'a measure'), an instrument for measuring the compressibility of fluids, by observing the extent to which an air-bubble which marks the upper level of liquid in the capillary neck of a flask is depressed by the application of an external pressure acting through liquid surrounding the flask.
Piezometer
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 170
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