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Definition of Anemometers

1. anemometer [n] - See also: anemometer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anemometers

Literary usage of Anemometers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"The Council having authorised the necessary expenditure, five pressure-tube anemometers were obtained and placed on HMS Worcester, under the superintendence ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"The paper gives the general method finally adopted to standardize the anemometers and states how errors may be involved If other methods are used. ..."

3. A Text-book of Ore and Stone Mining by Clement Le Neve Foster (1897)
"anemometers.—Two kinds may be mentioned : fan-plate type and windmill type. ... In anemometers of the second type, the speed of the air- current is ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1845)
"It was with the intention of obtaining a more perfect investigation of this question, that the British Association confided to my care the anemometers ..."

5. A Text-book of Coal-mining: For the Use of Colliery Managers and Others by Herbert William Hughes (1898)
"anemometers.—At the present time, the invariable practice is to employ what are called anemometers for measuring the velocity of the air current. ..."

6. Symons's Meteorological Magazine (1891)
"The anemometers at the Paris Exhibition last season (Times, March 13th, 1890), indicated that at the top of the Eiffel Tower, the mean velocities were 15'5 ..."

7. Meteorology, Practical and Applied by Sir John William Moore (1894)
"... AND anemometers Wind : what it is and how produced—Force or Velocity of Wind depends on Barometric Gradients—Estimation of Wind Force—Beaufort Scale ..."

8. The Engineering Index by John Butler Johnson, Association of Engineering Societies, Henry Harrison Suplee, Johannes H. Cuntz, Charles Buxton Going (1892)
"Gives results of experiments made on the grounds of the Crystal Palace with whirled anemometers. 1,an. Nos. Eng. Mag., Vol. XXV., p. 265. Aneroid. ..."

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