gravimetric
adjective
gravimetric is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to measurement by weight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-A-V-I-M-E-T-R-I-C and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does gravimetric mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to measurement by weight.
- 2
Of or pertaining to measurement of the local gravitational field.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce gravimetric?
Gravimetric has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gravimetric?
Gravimetric appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th 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).
Gravimetric in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to measurement by weight:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | gravimétrique |
| Portuguese | gravimétrico |
| Spanish | gravimétrico |
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 gravimetric come from?
From gravi- + -metric.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).