Sentence examples for gravity meter from inspiring English sources
noun
An instrument that measures the local acceleration due to gravity (strength of the gravitational field).
Gravimeter, also called gravity meter, sensitive device for measuring variations in the Earth's gravitational field, useful in prospecting for oil and minerals.
A newly developed interactive computer program, CG3TOOL, has been dedicated to the processing of the gravity data acquired by the Scintrex CG-3/3M automated gravity meter.
Level 2 contains a series of processing tools (including network adjustment, anomaly computation, and gravity meter calibration) that will precisely compute and adjust the gravity values with error estimates.
Dr Bilham says that the Indian government has even forbidden him to use a gravity meter in the region (such a meter measures whether a point is moving away from the centre of the earth, and therefore indicates a build up of strain that might be released as an earthquake).
The data were obtained with the aid of a Worden prospecting gravity meter.
They were collected using a Lacoste and Romberg model 'G' land gravity meter and model 'H/U' seabed gravity meter from Electronic and Geophysical Services Ltd (Luo et al. 2005).
They used aircraft equipped with ice-penetrating radars, gravity meters and magnetometers to learn how a mountain range bigger than the Alps formed where it did.
For gravity surveys using relative gravity meters, the precision is highly dependent on the methods used to operate the gravimeter in the field.
An international team of scientists flew over Antarctica's deep interior in 2008-2009 wice-penetratingting radar, gravity meters and magnetometers to reveal the peaks and valleys hidden below the ice.
Bell and her partners flew laps over the white fields of East Antarctica in two Twin Otter airplanes outfitted with deep-ice radar, magnetometers, and gravity meters to penetrate the secrets of the ice-entombed "ghost mountains". It was in the course of these investigations that Bell and her team made their own startling discoveries.
"But the point is, they've now got a sensor that is sensitive enough to measure the types of gravity changes that I'm interested in - and anybody else that is using gravity meters.
