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gravimetry

noun

gravimetry is a noun meaning “The measurement of gravity (the strength of the gravitational field)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-A-V-I-M-E-T-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gravimetry is gravimetries.

What does gravimetry mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The measurement of gravity (the strength of the gravitational field).

  2. 2

    The measurement of specific gravity; hydrometry.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of gravimetry

  • gravimetries plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is gravimetry?

Gravimetry appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).

Where does gravimetry come from?

From gravi- + -metry.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).