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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sclerometer \Scle*rom"e*ter\, n. [Gr. sklhro`s hard + -meter.] An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sclerometer n 1: a measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point