[f. CREAM sb.2, after lactometer. In F. crémomètre.] An instrument for measuring the percentage of cream contained in a sample of milk.
1876. A. H. Hassall, Food, 414. The amount of cream is determined by means of an instrument invented by the late Sir Joseph Banks, called a creamometer.
1885. J. Long, Brit. Dairy Farm., 72. The value of the glass creamometer is much regulated by its diameter being in accordance with its height.
