Sentence examples for a device for measuring from inspiring English sources

They are called Niskin bottles, and they are always accompanied by a thermometer and a device for measuring salinity.

Polling - as Edward surely knows -  is a device for influencing opinion, not a device for measuring it.

When I became an attending physician, I invented a device for measuring blood flow in the leg.

Floorboards, quirky pieces – we sold Paul Smith a device for measuring a gentleman's trousers for horse riding – and coloured enamel lights.

Someone should really invent a "blunderometer": a device for measuring the frequency and volume of the stupid and careless mistakes that governments make.

Their study in the 1890s of nerve-controlled contraction and dilation of blood vessels resulted in the development of an improved hemopiezometer (a device for measuring blood pressure).

Secondly, when compared to the current scoring methodology, the ADAS-CogIRT methodology requires the use of a computer or a handheld device for measuring cognitive impairment in patients.

The first recorded scientific application of a kite took place in 1749 when Alexander Wilson of Scotland used a kite train (two or more kites flown from a common line) as a meteorologic device for measuring temperature variations at different altitudes.

Fifteen years earlier, her husband and his brother had developed a version of the electrometer, a sensitive device for measuring electric charge.

The Broad Group in China has developed a miniaturized device for measuring air pollution — an increasingly hot issue in the country — that can fit inside a mobile phone.

Among the journal's first papers: a tiny device for measuring breast cancer risk, a strategy for improving bone marrow transplants, and a study on potential new drugs for osteoporosis.