Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not using liquid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dispensing with fluid; of a barometer, dispensing with a fluid, as quicksilver, which is employed in an ordinary barometer.
- noun An aneroid barometer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing no liquid; -- said of a kind of barometer.
- adjective 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.
- noun An aneroid barometer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not using or containing
fluid - noun An
aneroid barometer
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a barometer that measures pressure without using fluids
- adjective containing no liquid or actuated without the use of liquid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word aneroid means not wet, or not a fluid, like mercury, so that, while aneroid barometers are being made which do use mercury, they are generally made without.
Aeroplanes 1915
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Such slight variations are more easily observed on the aneroid than on the mercurial barometer, and therefore it is commonly stated that the aneroid is the more sensitive instrument.
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The mercury barometer is large and inconvenient to carry from place to place, and a more portable form has been devised, known as the aneroid barometer (Fig. 45).
General Science Bertha M. Clark
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There are two main types: manual, also called aneroid, and automatic.
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Old scientific instruments such as aneroid barometers may provide some data but it will be patchy and data quality may be compromised though this can be checked by a suite of measurements on the other atmospheric gases.
Potential Academic Misconduct by the Euro Team « Climate Audit 2006
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"How does this invention differ from the ordinary aneroid altimeter that we use now?"
I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010
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She fell in love with the saloon, with the satinwood panels, with the little racks and cupboards, with the recording aneroid in springs.
Movie Night 2010
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The instruments we carried were two sextants and three artificial horizons -- two glass and one mercury -- a hypsometer for measuring heights, and one aneroid.
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The hill was farther off and higher than it appeared at first; the aneroid showed a rise of 700 feet when we reached the top.
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As we had seen from our camping-ground, it was an immense undulation that we had to traverse; the ascent on the other side felt uncomfortably warm in the powerful sun, but it was no higher than 300 feet by the aneroid.
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