250+ Measuring Devices And Instruments (2024 Updated)

Last Updated: 5 January 2024

A measuring device or measuring instrument is a device to measure a physical quantity or degree of something in our lives every day.

In the physical sciences, quality assurance, and engineering, measurement is the activity of obtaining and comparing physical quantities of real-world objects and events. The process of measurement gives a number relating to the item under study and the referenced unit of measurement.

These instruments may range from simple objects such as rulers and stopwatches to electron microscopes and particle accelerators. Read the following list to know more.

List Of Measuring Devices & Instruments

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A

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Acceleration	Accelerometer
2	AF Signal Level	Psophometer
3	Airflow	1) Anemometers 2) Thermoanemometers
4	Air Pressure	Barometer
5	Air Quality	1) Nephelometers 2) Air Quality Meter
6	Alcoholic Strength	Alcoholmeter
7	Altitude	Altimeter
8	Angle	1) Circumferentor 2) Cross Staff 3) Goniometer 4) Graphometer 5) Inclinometer 6) Mural Instrument 7) Protractor 8) Bevel Protractor 9) Digital Protractor 10) Quadrant 11) Octant 12) Reflecting Circles 13) Sextant 14) Theodolite 15) Total Station 16) Sine Bars 17) Pivot Square 18) Three-Sided Squares 19) Square Shooter 20) T-Bevel 21) T-Bevel Setter 22) Protractor Plus 23) Miter Guide 24) Adjustable T-Square
9	Angle of a Slope	Inclinometer
10	Angular velocity	1) Stroboscope 2) Tachometer 3) Gyroscope
11	Animal Activity	Actograph
12	Area	1) Planimeter 2) Measuring Tape 3) Theodolite
13	Astronomy	1) Radio Antenna 3) Telescope
14	Atmospheric Pressure	Mercury Barometer
15	Atom Polarization	Stern–Gerlach Experiment

B

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Bocce Ball	BocceStik
2	Body Fat	1) Skinfold Calipers 2) Bioimpedance 3) Air displacement 4) DEXA Scan
3	Body Temperature	1) Medical Thermometer 2) Infrared Thermometer
4	Boiling Temperature	Ebullioscope
5	Blood Glucose	Glucometer
6	Blood Pressure	Sphygmomanometer
7	Brain Waves	Electroencephalograph
8	Breath Alcohol Content	Breathalyzer
9	Breathing	Spirometer
10	Brightness	1) Lux Meter 2) Luminance Meter 3) Light Meter 4) Integrating Sphere 5) Densitometer
11	Bullet Speed	1) Ballistic Chronograph 2) Gun Chronograph

C

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Capacitance	LCR Meter
2	Capacitance Component	Capacitance Meter
3	Cathode Rays	1) Crookes Tube 2) Cathode-Ray Tube
4	Cells	Microscope
5	Change in Volume of a Gas	Eudiometer
6	Circuit Distortion	Distortion Meter
7	Circulatory System	1) Electrocardiograph 2) Glucose Meter 3) Sphygmomanometer
8	Cloud Cover	Ceilometer
9	CO₂	Capnograph
10	Color	1) Tristimulus Colorimeter 2) Tintometer
11	Composition of Gases	Katharometer
12	Condensed Matter	1) Infrared Spectroscopy 2) Neutron Detector 3) Radiofrequency 4) Raman Spectroscopy
13	Conductivity	Electrical Conductivity Meter
14	Corrosion Rate	Corrator
15	Crystal Structure	X-ray Tube
16	Curling	Curling Micrometer
17	Current	Multimeter
18	Current Without Physical Connection	Current Clamp

D

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Data Recorded Over Time	Data Logger
2	Decibels	1) Sound Level Meter 2) Decibel Meter 3) Integrating Sound Level Meter 4) Noise Dosimeter
3	Deformation	Strain Gauge
4	Degree of Darkness	Densitometer
5	Density	1) Aerometer 2) Dasymeter 3) Gas collecting Tube 4) Hydrometer 5) Pycnometer
6	Depth of Sea	Multibeam Echosounders
7	Diameter	Caliper Gauge
8	Dielectric Properties of Thin Films	Ellipsometer
9	Direct Solar Insolation	Pyrheliometer
10	Direction	1) Gyroscope 2) Compass 3) Wind vane 4) Gyrocompass 5) Wave Recorder 6) Anemometer 7) Wavemeter
11	Distance	1) Measuring Tape 2) Odometer 3) Odograph 4) Tacheometer
12	Drop Size Distribution	Disdrometer
13	Drum Strokes	Drumometer
14	Ductility	Universal Testing Machine

E

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Earthing’s Resistance	Megger Tester
2	Earthquake	1) Seismographs 2) Seismometer 3) Richter Scale 4) Mercalli Scale
3	Elapsed Machine Hours	Hourmeter
4	Elasticity	1) Resonant Frequency 2) Damping Analyser
5	Electric Charge	1) Electrometer 2) Electroscope
6	Electric Current	1) Ammeter 2) Clamp meter 3) d’Arsonval Galvanometer 4) Galvanometer 5) Capacitance Meter 6) Voltmeter
7	Electricity	1) Energy Meter 2) Smart Meter 3) Multimeter 4) Tester 5) Galvanometer
8	Electric Capacitance	Capacitance Meter
9	Electric Energy	Electricity Meter
10	Electric Field	Field Mill
11	Electric Inductance	Inductance Meter
12	Electrical Insulation	Megger
13	Electric Power	Wattmeter
14	Electrical Resistance	1) Ohmmeter 2) Wheatstone Bridge 3) Multimeter 4) LCR Meter
15	Electromagnetic Radiation	Bolometer
16	Electrostatic Charge	Coulombmeter
17	Energy	1) Electricity Meter 2) Gas Meter 3) Ballistic Pendulum 4) Watthour Meter
18	Entropy	Calorimeter
19	Exposure to Hazards	Dosimeter
20	Eye Pressure	Goldmann Applanation Tonometer

F

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Fabric Degradation	Bettsometer
2	Fare of Distance Travelled	Taximeter
3	Fermentation	Zymometer
4	Flow	Flow Meter
5	Fluid Density	Pycnometer
6	Foot	1) Brannock Device 2) Shoe Gauge
7	Force	1) Force Gauge 2) Spring Scale 3) Strain Gauge 4) Torsion Balance 5) Tribometer 6) Dynamometer
8	Frequency	Frequency Counter
9	Frequency Spectrum	Spectrum Analyser
10	Fuel Levels	Fuel Gauge

G

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Gap Widths	Feeler Gauge
2	Geometric Locations	Universal Measuring Machine
3	Gradient of Physical Quantity	Gradiometer
4	Granularity	Grindometer
5	Ground Reaction Force	Force Platform

H

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Heartbeat	Stethoscope
2	Hearing	1) Sound Pressure Gauge 2) Sound Level Meter 3) Audiometer
3	Heat Radiation	1) Thermographic Camera 2) Actinometer 3) Constant Volume Calorimeter 4) Constant Temperature Calorimeter 5) Constant Pressure Calorimeter 6) Differential Scanning Calorimeter 7) Reaction Calorimeter 8) Infrared Thermometer
4	Height of a Cloud Base	Ceilometer
5	High Temperatures	Pyrometer
6	Humidity	1) Hygrometer 2) Lysimeter

I

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Illuminance	Photometer
2	Imaging Technology	1) Tomograph 2) Wind Tunnel 3) Electron Microscope 4) Scanning Electron Microscope 5) Transmission Electron Microscope 6) Optical Microscope 7) Scanning Acoustic Microscope 8) Scanning Probe Microscope 9) Atomic Force Microscope 10) Scanning Tunneling Microscope 11) Focus Variation 12) X-ray Microscope
3	Index of Refraction	Refractometer
4	Inductance	LCR Meter
5	Infrared Radiation	Forward Looking Infrared
6	Ink	Inkometer
7	Intensity of Light	1) Lux Meter 2) Spectrophotometer
8	Ionizing Radiation	Geiger Counter

K

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Keto	Blood Glucose Meters

L

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Laser	Laser Distance Meter
2	Latitude	Astrolabe
3	Length/Distance	1) Standard Rulers 2) Architect’s Scale 3) Caliper 4) Diagonal Scale 5) Engineer’s Scale 6) Feeler Gauge 7) Gauge Blocks 8) Gunter’s Chain 9) Measuring Rod 10) Meter Stick 11) Metric scale 12) Cosmic Distance Ladder 13) Micrometer 14) Opisometer/Curvimeter 15) Pacing (surveying) 16) Ruler 17) Stadimeter 18) Surveyor’s Wheel 19) Tape Measure 20) Thread Pitch Gauge 21) Ultrasonic Thickness Gauge 22) Yardstick 23) Ranging 24) Radar 25) Laser Rangefinder
4	Lengths of Arbitrary Curved Lines	Opisometer
5	Level	1) Level (instrument) 2) Laser Line Level 3) Spirit Level 4) Dip Sticks & Lead Lines 5) Sight Glass 6) Float Gauge 7) Sonar 8) Dumpy Level
6	Light	1) Photometer 2) Phototube 3) Luminance Meter 4) Illuminance Meter 5) Integrating Sphere 6) Spectrometer 7) Light Meter
7	Light & Radiation Without Rest Mass	1) Antenna 2) Bolometer 3) Camera 4) EMF Meter 5) Interferometer 6) Microwave Power Meter 7) Optical Power Meter 8) Photographic Plate 9) Photomultiplier 10) Phototube 11) Radio Telescope 12) Spectrometer 13) T-ray Detectors
8	Linear Momentum	Ballistic Pendulum
9	Liquid	Measuring Cylinder
10	Location on Earth’s Surface	Sextant
11	Lung Capacity	Spirometer

M

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Magnetic Declination	Declinometer
2	Magnetic Field	1) Compass 2) Hall Effect Sensor 3) Magnetometer 4) Proton Magnetometer 5) SQUID 6) Flux Meter
3	Magnetization	Gouy Balance
4	Mass	1) Balance 2) Check Weigher 3) Inertial Balance 4) Katharometer 5) Mass Spectrometers 6) Weighing Scale 7) Beam Balance
5	Mass/Volume Flow	1) Gas Meter 2) Mass Flow Meter 3) Metering Pump 4) Water Meter 5) Coriolis Flow Meter 6) Differential Pressure Flow Meters 7) Electromagnetic Flow Meters 8) Flow Indicators 9) Metering Pumps 10) Thermal Dispersion Flow Meters 11) Ultrasonic Flow Meters 12) Flow Control Valves 13) Variable Area Flow Meters 14) Vortex Flow Meters
6	Measurement of Force	Load Cell
7	Mechanical Properties of Soil	Bevameter
8	Medical Imaging	1) Computed Tomography 2) Magnetic Resonance Imaging 3) Medical Ultrasonography 4) Radiology 5) Tomograph
9	Melting Point	Melting-Point Apparatus
10	Melting Temperature	1) Differential Scanning Calorimeter 2) Kofler Bench 3) Thiele Tube
11	Metabolic Rate	Calorimeter
	Microwave Frequencies	Microwave Power Meter
12	Minor Changes to the Earth	Tiltmeter
13	Musculoskeletal system	1) Ergometer 2) Body Fat Meter

N

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Nervous System	Electroencephalograph
2	Network Parameters	Network Analyzer
3	Noise	1) Sound Level Meter 2) Integrating Sound Level Meter 3) Noise Dosimeter

O

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Object Range	Stadimeter
2	Ocean Depth	Fathometer
3	Optical Activity	Polarimeter
4	Oscillations	Oscilloscope
5	Osmotic Strength	Osmometer
6	Oxygen	Oximeter

P

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Parking Time	Parking Meter
2	Particle & Ray Flux	1) Bubble Chamber 2) Cloud Chamber 3) Dosimeter 4) Geiger Counter 5) Ionization Chamber 6) Microchannel Plate Detector 7) Photographic Plate 8) Photostimulable Phosphor Plate 9) Proportional Counter 10) Scintillation Counter 11) Lucas Cell 12) Semiconductor Detector
3	Particles in a Liquid	Nephelometer
4	Pelvis	1) Collin Pelvimeter 2) Bone-Meter Kit
5	Percentage Cover of an Item	Quadrat
6	Permittivity	Capacitor
7	pH	1) pH Meter 2) Saturated Calomel Electrode
8	Photon Polarization	Polarizer
9	Pitch of Musical Notes	Electronic Tuner
10	Plasticity	1) Cam Plastometer 2) Plastometer
11	Postage	Postage Meter
12	Power	1) Wattmeters 2) Energy Meter 3) Power Meter 4) Watthour meter
13	Power Factor	Cos Phi Meter
14	Precipitation	1) Rain Gauge 2) Snow gauges
15	Pressure	1) Barometer 2) Piezometer Pressure Gauge 3) Manometer Pressure Gauge 4) Bourdon Tube Pressure Gauge 5) Diaphragm Pressure Gauge 6) Micro Manometer 7) Capsule Pressure Gauge 8) Absolute Pressure Gauge 9) Differential Pressure Gauge 10) Bellows Pressure Gauge 11) Dead-Weight Pressure Gauge 12) Tire Pressure Gauge 13) Nichols Radiometer
16	Pressure of Gas	Manometer
17	Pressure of a Liquid	Rotameter
18	Properties of Light	Spectroscope
19	Pulse Rate	Stethoscope

Q

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Quality of Milk	Lactometer

R

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Radar Brightness	Synthetic Aperture Radar
2	Radiant Flux	1) Integrating Sphere 2) Radiometer
3	Radiation	Geiger Counters
4	Radius of a Sphere	Apherometer
5	Rain	Rain Gauge
6	Rate of Evaporation	Evaporimeter
7	Reflectivity & Moisture	Synthetic Aperture Radar
8	Resistance	1) LCR Meter 2) Multimeter
9	Respitration	1) Inductance Plethysmography 2) Capnography 3) Piezoelectric 3) Bioimpedance-Based Sensors
10	Respiratory System	Spirometer
11	Response to Applied Forces	Rheometer
12	Right Angles in Construction	Framing Square
13	RPM	1) Dynamometer 2) Tachometer

S

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Seismic Strain	Strainmeter
2	Seismic Waves	Seismometer
3	Shoe Size	Brannock Device
4	Signal Strength	S Meter
5	Slow Surface Displacement	Creepmeter
6	Small Distances	Micrometer
7	Smell	Olfactometer
8	Snow	Snow Gauge
9	Solar Radiation	Pyranometer
10	Solid Hardness	Durometer
11	Solid Shape/Surface	1) Holographic interferometer 2) Resonant Frequency & Damping Analyser 3) Tribometer
12	Sound	1) Laser Microphone 2) Seismometer
13	Sound Pressure	1) Microphone 2) Shock Tube 3) Sound Level Meter
14	Specific Gravity	1) Hygrometer 2) Refractometer
15	Specific Gravity of Liquids	1) Densimeter 2) Hydrometer
16	Specific Gravity of Milk	Lactometer
17	Speed/Velocity	1) Airspeed Indicator 2) LIDAR Speed Gun 3) Radar Speed Gun 4) Speedometer 5) Tachometer 6) Tachymeter 7) Variometer 8) Velocimetry 9) Anemometer 10) Accelerometer 11) Pitot Tube (Air Speed)
18	Speed & Direction of Clouds	Nephoscope
19	Speed of Movement	Linear Position Transducer
20	Standing Wave Ratio	SWR Meter
21	Steps	Pedometer
22	Stool	Bristol Stool Scale
23	Strain	Electrical Strain Gauge
24	Strength of Magnetic Fields	Magnetometer
25	Structure of Crystals	Diffractometer
26	Substance Identification	1) Carbon Dioxide Sensor 2) Chromatographic Device 3) Colorimeter Absorbance 4) Gas Detector 5) Mass Spectrometer 6) Nephelometer 7) Oxygen Sensor 8) Refractometer 9) Smoke Detector 10) Ultracentrifuge
27	Surface Roughness	Profilometer
28	Surface Texture	Roughness Meters
29	Sugar	1) Glucose Meter/Glucometer 2) Lactometer 3) Refractometer 4) Brix meter 5) Saccharometer
30	Sun’s Diameter	Heliometer
31	Surface Tension	Tensiometer

T

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Tanning Liquors	Barkometer
2	Temperature	1) Thermometer 2) Thermocouples 3) Galileo Thermometer 4) Gas Thermometer 5) Liquid Crystal Thermometer 6) Resistance Thermometer
3	Tensile	Universal Testing Machine
4	Testicle Size in Male Humans	Orchidometer
5	Thermal Expansion	1) Dilatometer 2) Strain Gauge
6	Thickness of Thin Films	Quartz Crystal Microbalance
7	Time	1) Sundial 2) Clocks 3) Watches 4) Atomic Clock 5) Stopwatches 6) Winding Clock 7) Pendulum Clock 8) Electric Clock 9) Hourglass 10) Chronometer
8	Torque	1) Dynamometer 2) Prony Brake 3) Torque Wrench 4) Torque Meter 5) Torque Gauge 6) Torque Transducer
9	Turbidity	Nephelometers

U

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Urine	Uroflowmeter

V

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Vertical Distances	Cathetometer
2	Very Low Pressure	Vacuum Gauge
3	Voltage	1) Oscilloscope 2) Voltmeter 3) Multimeter 4) Potentiometer
4	Volume	1) Buoyant Weight 2) Eudiometer 3) Pneumatic Trough 4) Flow Measurement 5) Graduated Cylinder 6) Measuring Cup 7) Pipette 8) Buret 9) Beaker 10) Erlenmeyer Flask 11) Syringe
5	Volume & Density of Solids	Gas Pycnometer
6	Volume Changes	Dilatometer
7	Volume of Applause	Clap-o-Meter
8	Volume Unit	VU Meter
9	VOM	Multimeter
10	Viscosity	1) Rheometer 2) Viscometer

W

No.	Measurement Of	Device/Instrument
1	Walking Distance	1) Pedometers 2) Fitness Trackers
2	Water	1) Propeller Meter 2) Turbine Meter 3) Magnetic Flow Meter 4) Water Analysis Meter
3	Wave Interference	Interferometer
4	Weight	Weighing Scale
5	Width	1) Meter stick 2) Caliper 3) Tape Measure
6	Wind Speed	1) Anemometer 2) Wind Vane