[f. Gr. σταλαγμό-ς (see STALAGMITE) + -METER.] An apparatus for measuring drops. So Stalagmoscope [-SCOPE], an instrument for viewing drops.
1864. Guthrie, in Proc. Roy. Soc., XIII. 477. In the cases of the still more proximate identity of isomeric bodies mentioned above the stalagmometer may be used rather as a stalagmoscope, to render evident rather than to measure a difference of drop-size.