"smell-o-meter" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1993 May, Anne M. Turner, It Comes with the Territory: Handling Problem Situations in Libraries, McFarland & Company, page 10",
          "text": "Perhaps the American Library Association should commission high tech wizards to develop a \"smell-o-meter\" which could standardize our judgments.",
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          "text": "1997 May 7, William Greene, misc.fitness.weights, Usenet\nSomebody needs to invent a \"smell-o-meter\" for gyms"
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          "ref": "2003 November, Shawn Perich, Michael Furtman, Whitetail Hunting: Top-Notch Strategies for Hunting North America's Most Popular Big-Game Animal, Creative Publishing international, page 13",
          "text": "In other words, the wolf scent that is old, though it registers on the deer’s “smell-o-meter,” causes a far different behavioral reaction than one that is fresh.",
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        "That which registers the magnitude of odor."
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        "(informal) That which registers the magnitude of odor."
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