Crossword clues for hypsometer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypsometer \Hyp*som"e*ter\, n. [Gr. ? height + -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.
Wiktionary
n. An instrument that measures altitude indirectly by measuring the boiling point of water (which varies with atmospheric pressure).
WordNet
n. an altimeter that uses the boiling point of water to determine land elevation
Wikipedia
A hypsometer is an instrument for measuring height or altitude. Two different principles may be used: trigonometry and atmospheric pressure.
Usage examples of "hypsometer".
The hypsometer and barometer, however, were not to be deceived, and both fell in precisely the same degree as they had risen before.
The instruments we carried were two sextants and three artificial horizons -- two glass and one mercury -- a hypsometer for measuring heights, and one aneroid.
The hypsometers of Mount Anville is held to be dying out of arthataxis but, praise send Larix U' Thule, the wych elm of Manelagh is still flourishing in the open, because its native of our nature and the seeds was sent by Fortune.