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Definition of Hypsometers
1. hypsometer [n] - See also: hypsometer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypsometers
Literary usage of Hypsometers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outline of the Method of Conducting a Trigonometrical Survey, for the by Edward Charles Frome (1873)
"He draws the following conclusion : (1) That at high altitudes hypsometers are
not to be depended on for any but the roughest approximation ; (2) that ..."
2. Forest Mensuration by Herman Haupt Chapman (1921)
"hypsometers Based on the Pendulum or Plumb-bob. These angles can be read as easily
from a pendulum, with graduated arc placed below. ..."
3. Forest Management by Arthur Bernhard Recknagel, John Bentley (1919)
"hypsometers. — The next commonest instrument for measuring trees is the hypsometer,
an instrument for measuring heights; and since it is employed almost ..."
4. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society ...: General index to the by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1876)
"Mercurial barometers are not liable to errors, which are of much importance in
measuring elevations : on the contrary, hypsometers change their corrections ..."
5. The Late Dr. Charles Beke's Discoveries of Sinai in Arabia and of Midian by Charles Tilstone Beke (1878)
"The hypsometers were certified at Kew Observatory in April 1873 to have minus errors
... It may safely be assumed that the bulbs of the hypsometers have ..."
6. A Manual of Exercises in Forest Mensuration by Hugo Winkenwerder, Elias Treat Clark (1915)
"Graves' Forest Mensuration, hypsometers and methods of determining heights of trees.
EXPLANATION: The object of this exercise is to give the student ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. (1875)
"From the survey of Sinai, by Major Wilson and Captain Palmer, BB, the results of
the systematic use of the aneroids and hypsometers show (1), ..."
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