hypsometer

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun hypsometer has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

hypsometern. [Gr. height + -meter.].
     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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hypsometer, n.
1 a device for calibrating thermometers at the boiling point of water.
2 this instrument when used to estimate height above sea level.

Derivative
hypsometric adj.

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