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What does gravimetric mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word gravimetric? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (chemistry) Of or pertaining to measurement by weight.
  2. (geology) Of or pertaining to measurement of the local gravitational field.
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As the IMEP-9 sample was not prepared gravimetrically, there were no gravimetric reference values available.
The concentration must be known to an accuracy of ± 2 per cent in reference to a gravimetric standard expressed in volume.
Telescopic, gravimetric, and spectrographic scans have revealed fourteen planets in the system.
This paper briefly reviews the history of cloud physics, then discusses the gravimetric theory of cloud buoyancy.
The two chief classes of quantitative analysis, gravimetric and volumetric, were developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Another problem with airborne measurements is that the aircraft's altitude must be known to within 1 m to attain gravimetric precision of the order of 1 mgal.

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