Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for E-CHOM'E-TER
E-CHOM'E-TER, n. [Gr. ηχος, sound, and μετρον, measure.]
Among musicians, a scale or rule, with several lines thereon, serving to measure the duration of sounds, and to find their intervals and ratios. Encyc.
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