aneroid barometer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of aneroid barometer
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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Trekking to a mountain top, he used an aneroid barometer to help him calculate its height.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2013
An excellent aneroid barometer, taken safe and sound out of its wadded box, was carefully hung on a hook in the wall.
From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward
Muir's aneroid barometer showed a height of about seven thousand feet, and the wall of rock towered threateningly above us, leaning out in places, a thousand feet or so above the glacier.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Young, Samual Hall
Pity that I had no aneroid barometer for ascertaining the elevation of that site.
From Byeways in Palestine by Finn, James
I think that a rough altitude gauge could be calculated from the time rice takes to boil—at least as reliable as an aneroid barometer.
From The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America by Stuck, Hudson
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