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An instrument that measures gravitational acceleration or variations in it.
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- portable gravimeter
- gravimeter survey
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The gravimeter detected a small local anomaly.
They moved the gravimeter between survey points.
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- gravimeter
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular gravimeter; plural gravimeters. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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