Etymograph

English

glossmeter

From gloss + meter.

A compound of gloss + meter

English glossa ‘to flame’

English gloss

Middle English metere ‘one who measures, measurer’

English meter

Today it means

noun An instrument used to measure the specular reflection gloss of a surface, by projecting a beam of light at a fixed intensity and angle onto a surface and measuring the amount of reflected light at an equal but opposite angle.

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Etymograph / glossmeter