Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument used in measuring heights, constructed on the same principle as the sextant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for measuring the height of objects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
instrument for measuring theheights of buildings etc.
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Examples
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According to a recent official _communiqué_ from Petrograd, among the captures on the Caucasian Front was "an apomecometer (an instrument for estimating altitudes)."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 Various
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