Instrumentation for measuring the motion of a substance as it passes through a pipe or duct.
A flow meter is category of device that is assigned to any instrument which can measure either directly or indirectly the quantity of a substance passing through a specific location.
A flow meter will typically measure the speed of flow as the primary reading, and some depending on the technology may include additional secondary readings to compensate for variations in flow due to pressure, temperature, density and viscosity changes. Some flowmeters include additional instrumentation to manipulate the flow reading to provide other functions such as the total quantity indication, or alarms each time a batch has been completed.
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