List of length, distance, or range measuring devices
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There are several devices to measure a length, distance, or range.
Contact devices
- Architect's scale
- Caliper
- Engineer's scale
- Feeler gauge, used in metal working to measure size of gaps
- Gauge blocks
- Gunter's chain
- Micrometer
- Opisometer or curvimeter
- Pacing (surveying)
- Measuring rod
- Ruler
- Stadimeter
- Surveyor's wheel
- Tape measure
- Yard stick
- Meter stick
- Screw Gauge
Non-contact devices
Based on time-of-flight
- Electronic distance meter
- Ultrasonic ranging module (sonar, echo sounding)
- Radar distance measurement
- Laser rangefinder, lidar
Other
- Rangefinder
- Interferometer
- Length measurement
- Odometer
- Tachymeter
- Taximeter, measure usually includes a time component as well
- Tellurometer
- Macrometer
- Travelling microscope
- GPS, indirect by runtime measurement of electromagnetic waves in the GHz-range
- Hypsometer