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-metry
(-metry)
Syllabification:
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combiningForm
in nouns denoting procedures and systems corresponding to names of instruments ending in
-meter
(such as
calorimetry
corresponding to
calorimeter
).
Origin:
from Greek
-metria
, from
-metrēs
'measurer'
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