-metry

comb. form forming nouns denoting procedures and systems corresponding to instruments in -meter (calorimetry; thermometry).
Etymology: after geometry etc. f. Gk -metria f. -metres measurer

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\\_mə.trē, -ri\ noun combining form (-es)

Etymology: Middle English -metrie, from Middle French, from Latin -metria, from Greek, from metrein to measure (from metron measure) + -ia -y — more at measure

: art, process, or science of measuring (something specified)

chronometry

hygrometry

hypermetry

photometry

psychometry

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a combining form with the meaning "the process of measuring" that specified by the initial element: anthropometry; chronometry.

[ < Gk -metria action or process of measuring, equiv. to métr(on) measure (see METER²) + -ia -Y³]

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-metry /-mi-tri/ combining form

1. Signifying: measuring

2. The science of measuring

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Main Entry: ↑-meter

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-metry,

combining form. the process or art of measuring _____: »

Biometry = the process or art of measuring life.

╂[< Greek -metríā a measuring < métron a measure]

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comb. form 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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-metry

(repr. Gr. -µετρία action or process of measuring, f. -µέτρης measurer, µέτρον measure), a terminal element of ns. with the general sense ‘action, process, or art of measuring (something specified by the initial element)’. A few of the words with this ending represent actual Greek words, as geometry, stichometry; many have been formed in modern times on assumed Gr. types, as aerometry, anthropometry, etc.; in the 19th c. there were many hybrid formations in which the initial element is a Latin or a modern word, as alkalimetry, calorimetry. Most of the ns. in -meter have correlative words in -metry, denoting specifically the process of measuring by the instrument called ‘—meter’.