valvometry

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English

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Etymology

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From valvo- +‎ -metry.

Noun

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valvometry (uncountable)

  1. The estimation of water quality by monitoring the opening and closing of bivalve molluscs
    • 2016, Bernard Bercu, Sami Capderou, Gilles Durrieu, “Nonparametric estimation of the derivative of the regression function: application to sea shores water quality”, in arXiv[1]:
      We also illustrate our nonparametric estimation procedure on simulated and real life data associated with sea shores water quality and valvometry..
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