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Aneroid   Listen
adjective
Aneroid  adj.  Containing no liquid; said of a kind of barometer.
Aneroid barometer, a barometer the action of which depends on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure.






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"Aneroid" Quotes from Famous Books



... of our observations with the Aneroid barometer gives 575 feet for the elevation of this part of the river above ...
— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory

... near Ankiling and Titipan, about four hours from Bontoc, and then creeps on and at last through the terraced entrance way into the mountain pocket where Bontoc pueblo lies, about 100 miles from the western coast, and, by Government aneroid barometer, about 2,800 feet ...
— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks

... days' march through some difficult bush in which lions carried off a slave woman, killed one of the donkeys and mauled another so badly that it had to be shot, we found ourselves upon the edge of a great grassy plateau that, according to my aneroid, was 1,640 feet above ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard



Words linked to "Aneroid" :   barometer, aneroid barometer, altimeter



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