Jeff Liebermann wrote:

There's a bit of a muddle over the term
durometer. Some say it's the units of
measure, some say it's the name of the
instrument, and some say it's both.
Methinks it's the instrument name.

Sure sounds like it. But I suppose it could be
a unit as well only first time I ever heard of
it was in the context of a thing or gadget, at
least that was the way I read it.

"Use the durometer to determine the durometer!"

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