Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, used especially in weather forecasting.
- noun Something that registers or responds to fluctuations; an indicator.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for measuring the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, invented by Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian mathematician and physicist, in 1643.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.
- noun See Aneroid barometer, under
Aneroid . - noun a barometer with tube contracted at bottom to prevent rapid oscillations of the mercury, and suspended in gimbals from an arm or support on shipboard.
- noun a portable mercurial barometer with tripod support, and long scale, for measuring heights.
- noun a barometer having a tube bent like a hook with the longer leg closed at the top. The height of the mercury in the longer leg shows the pressure of the atmosphere.
- noun a barometer with recurved tube, and a float, from which a cord passes over a pulley and moves an index.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
instrument formeasuring atmospheric pressure . - noun Anything used as a
gauge orindicator .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure
Etymologies
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Examples
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Amphibians are what we call barometer species of our planet's health.
PHOTOS: Mozart, 'Ventriloquist' And Other Frogs Found After Missing For Decades The Huffington Post 2011
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Amphibians are what we call barometer species of our planet's health.
PHOTOS: Mozart, 'Ventriloquist' And Other Frogs Found After Missing For Decades The Huffington Post 2011
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Amphibians are what we call barometer species of our planet's health.
PHOTOS: Mozart, 'Ventriloquist' And Other Frogs Found After Missing For Decades The Huffington Post 2011
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The variation in the barometer is the surest sign.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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On Nov. 17, 1884, Bell's lab recorded the word "barometer" several times on a glass disc with a beam of light.
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On Nov. 17, 1884, Bell's lab recorded the word "barometer" several times on a glass disc with a beam of light.
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Amphibians are what we call barometer species of our planet's health.
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My ultimate Obama-barometer is my ex-partner Giuseppe.
Obama to Dems: 'Guys, wake up here.' Jonathan Capehart 2010
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Miss West says the barometer is down, but that the warning has been too long, for the Plate, to amount to anything.
CHAPTER XXIX 2010
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Custer calling Crabb "a perfect reverse barometer" is mirrored in the way the wise men of the Bush administration (and the Washington Post, et al.) dismissed the DFH's who opposed the invasion of Iraq.
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