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anemometre
anemometre
See also: anémomètre and anemòmetre
English
Noun
anemometre (plural anemometres)
- (nonstandard and now largely obsolete) Alternative form of anemometer
- 1877, The Shamrock, Volume 15, page 297,
- It has been found, however, that the anemometre, or airmeasurer, can be so adjusted that after a few revolutions it releases a spring […] .
- 1883, American Tract Society, Illustrated Family Christian Almanac for the United States, page 25,
- Few people perhaps could tell if asked what an anemometre is.
- 2005, Brian Mac Aongusa, Broken Rails: Crashes and Sabotage on Irish Railways, page 156,
- The government suggested that two anemometres should be erected to control traffic during storms.
- 1877, The Shamrock, Volume 15, page 297,