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aerograph

American

[air-uh-graf, -grahf] / ˈɛər əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /

noun

Meteorology.

any automatic recording instrument for atmospheric measurement that is carried aloft by aircraft.

Etymology

Origin of aerograph

aero- + -graph

Example Sentences

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Thanks to the control possessed by the Parmenter Syndicate over the Atlantic cables and the aerograph system of the world, he was kept daily, sometimes hourly, acquainted with everything that was happening.

From The World Peril of 1910 by Griffith, George Chetwynd

He ran back, switched the electric current off the aerograph machines at the base of the observatory, and turned it on to the searchlight which was on the top of the equatorial dome.

From The World Peril of 1910 by Griffith, George Chetwynd

Halliday was studying a aerograph on the wall.

From Monsoons of Death by Vance, Gerald

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