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velocimeter [‚vel·ə′sim·əd·ər]
(engineering)
An instrument for measuring the speed of sound in water; two transducers transmit acoustic pulses back and forth over a path of fixed length, each transducer immediately initiating a pulse upon receiving the previous one; the number of pulses occurring in a unit time is measured.
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