Crossword clues for anemometer
anemometer
- Exciting era in which submariner happened on way to measure current
- Wind instrument encountered in an expressive type of music by Queen
- Weather device: article chaps set up before remote storms
- Poorly men, to me, are what could determine doctor's rate?
- Spinner in the wind
- Weather station gadget
- Wind-speed measurer
- Wing gauge
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anemometer \An`e*mom"e*ter\, n. [Gr. ? wind + -meter.] An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, from anemo- "wind" + -meter.
Wiktionary
n. (context meteorology English) An instrument for measuring and recording the speed of the wind, a windmeter.
WordNet
n. a gauge for recording the speed and direction of wind [syn: wind gauge, wind gage]
Wikipedia
An anemometer is a device used for measuring wind speed, and is a common weather station instrument. The term is derived from the Greek word anemos, which means wind, and is used to describe any wind speed measurement instrument used in meteorology. The first known description of an anemometer was given by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450.
Usage examples of "anemometer".
But he soon abandoned speculations, which may be compared to a shaking anemometer that will not let the troubled indicator take station.
I finished mounting antennas, rain gauge, wind vane, and anemometer on the roof of our control tower, it looked more like some scientific outpost than a deer blind.
He glanced at a small anemometer or wind gage, on the craft, and noted that it registered sixty miles an hour.
He wanted a blow--the harder the better--and all eyes anxiously watched the anemometer, or wind gage.
She hardly moved a foot in either direction, and yet the wind, as evidenced by the anemometer was howling along at a hundred and twenty miles an hour!
When the anemometer on the robot sampled the wind speed, little cilia inside my suit tickled my skin.
In Key West, the storm disabled the anemometers at the weather observation office, along with seven hundred feet of new concrete dock being installed by the War Department, and finished off the three-story concrete cigar factory of the Havana-American Company, severely damaged in the hurricane the year before.
There are pressure anemometers at the northern and southern extremities of the mountain, and when the difference in their measurements is greater than one-third, the computer registers it as a local, small-scale disturbance without proceeding to the next stage.
Vickery marched out to the scattered experimental stations, nets of thermocouples stretched from shadow to sunlight, anemometers, hygrometers, and a varied array of automated atmospheric analysis stations.
This space, intended to contain a few comfortable lounge chairs and perhaps a wet bar, was stuffed with meteorological equipment: dropsonde console, anemometer, barometer, gradient thermometer, three separate radar screens, and real-time satellite monitoring gear.
It certainly seemed like it, and the rover anemometer was now registering gusts of 230 kilometers per hour, but in the lee of their little mesa it was unclear whether these represented true maxi-mums or not.
It certainly seemed like it, and the rover anemometer was now registering gusts of 230 kilometers per hour, but in the lee of their little mesa it was unclear whether these represented true maximums or not.