flowmeter
noun
flowmeter is a noun meaning “Any of various devices used to measure the flow of a fluid through a pipe, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-W-M-E-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flowmeter is flowmeters.
What does flowmeter mean?
noun
- 1
Any of various devices used to measure the flow of a fluid through a pipe, etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flowmeter?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flowmeter.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flowmeter
- flowmeters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flowmeter?
Flowmeter appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Flowmeter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense device for measuring flow:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | débitmètre |
| German | Durchflussmesser |
| Portuguese | caudalímetro |
| Spanish | caudalímetro |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does flowmeter come from?
From flow + -meter.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).