These tests are conducted in a laboratory where the car is driven on a dynamometer, which is a bit like a treadmill for cars.    From Wordnik.com.  [How we test: Fuel economy] Reference

There is an automotive testing instrument called a dynamometer which can be used to help judge engine performance; it should be available from auto parts dealers (House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

"dynamometer" and gave him a clue that would lead him to NASCAR's executive chef where he was asked to spell "acidulation.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Now, this is a machine called an isokinetic dynamometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2009] Reference

Tommy leaned over the dynamometer and spat in the wheel well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Least Resistance] Reference

One mounts the engine on a dynamometer and measures it directly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Volkskrant: The Hockey Team Strikes Back « Climate Audit] Reference

Testing the breaking strength and the elasticity by the dynamometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

The dynamometer is now more powerful in absorbing work than in the form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference

It's measured using a friction brake (dynamometer) attached to the drive shaft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glossary: Automotive Terminology] Reference

The next step will be dynamometer testing at Argonne National Labs in Chicago in August.    From Wordnik.com.  [Automotive X Prize: Video highlights from the Finals competition] Reference

Manufacturers usually test yarn and fabrics by means of an instrument called a dynamometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

Still lacks power -- if that's 5 horsepower, they're putting miniatures on the dynamometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [I aten't dead] Reference

Supporting evidence: In 1924, the Bronx Zoo tested the grip strength of people and chimpanzees using a dynamometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: May 2, 2004 - May 8, 2004 Archives] Reference

Within two years, the team was testing their hydrogen-powered Gremlin on a chassis dynamometer -- a sort of treadmill for cars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nice Ride: The Hydrogen Gremlin] Reference

Then the newly assembled motor spent its first three hours of life running on a dynamometer, a device for measuring power output.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Ride] Reference

It would certainly be better to measure the force expended during and not after the experiment, by means of a registering dynamometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference

Then, as if determined to make a certainty of his condition, he took a dynamometer from one of the drawers in his old veneered bureau.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference

Besides this, Siemens 'electro-dynamometer and Ayrton's voltmeter were used to check the results; but there was no practical difference discovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference

Before fixing a motor in its final position, it should also be tested for power with a dynamometer, and for this purpose a Prony brake answers very well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference

He measured the force expended by means of a registering dynamometer, and obtained very high coefficients of efficiency, amounting to nearly 90 per cent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference

The note given out by the wire when the bottom is reached is perceptibly different when under strain, even if the dynamometer should give an unreliable indication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887] Reference

The dynamometer is an instrument which shows the exact degree of the strain on the cable, and the wheel attached to it rises and falls as the strain is greater or less.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878] Reference

The indicator cards were taken at the central station by Mr. Idell and his assistants, and the dynamometer used was of the liquid type made by Mr. Shaw, of Philadelphia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889] Reference

All of these teams will now move on to the Validation stage, where their fuel economy and emissions are retested on a stationary dynamometer at Argonne National Laboratory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Automotive X Prize: Finals race results, officials closer to naming winners] Reference

It resulted that for a mean development of 4 mechanical horse power, the dynamometer gave into the accumulators to be stored up 2.28 electrical horse power, or 57 per cent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference

Watch out this advanced chassis dynamometer system.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to U.N. ends Kyoto CO2 offset drought ahead of key meet] Reference

"There," remarked Kennedy when at last he had finished packing up the dynamometer into two packages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ear in the Wall] Reference

The index of the dynamometer moves in such a way as to make a permanent record of the pressure exerted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ear in the Wall] Reference

Later, the truck was put on a chassis dynamometer and the power level was measured at an equal 370 hp on each fuel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autoblog Green] Reference

Craig laid the piece of steel on the dynamometer in the position it had occupied in the safe, and braced it tightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Bullet] Reference

On the library table he fastened an arrangement with two upright posts supporting a dial which he called a "dynamometer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Bullet] Reference

He was still studying and comparing the marks on the door and the record made on the dynamometer, when the office telephone rang and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ear in the Wall] Reference

Earnestly did every one regard the dynamometer which told the exact amount of strain on the iron fishing-line, and to their joy the strain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables] Reference