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Aneroid   Listen
noun
aneroid  n.  An aneroid barometer.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Aneroid" Quotes from Famous Books



... town, and distant about seven miles, lie the Sub-Ghauts, a bold background of lime and sandstone. Through a broad gap called Duss Malablay [10] appear in fine weather the granite walls of Wagar and Gulays, whose altitude by aneroid was found to be 5700 feet above the level of the sea. [11] On the eastward the Berberah plain is bounded by the hills of Siyaro, and westwards the heights of Dabasenis limit the ...
— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton

... "fortunately I thought of that. He was steering due east when he released me; and so soon as I got down into Ida's cabin I took the little aneroid with the compass at its back that hangs there and set it on the table, so that I could watch it. It was just eleven o'clock, by the clock in the pilot-house, when we passed out through the reef; and at twelve o'clock he altered his course to north-east-by-east, which ...
— With Airship and Submarine - A Tale of Adventure • Harry Collingwood

... were-(1) to determine the temperature of the dew-point by Daniell's and Regnault's hygrometers, as well as by the dry and wet bulb thermometers, and to compare the results; (2) to compare the readings of an aneroid barometer with those of a mercurial barometer up to the height of 5 m.; (3) to determine the electrical state of the air, (4) the oxygenic condition of the atmosphere, and (5) the time of vibration of a magnet; (6) to collect air at different elevations; (7) to note the height and kind ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



Words linked to "Aneroid" :   barometer, altimeter



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