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Definition of Statoscope
1. Noun. An instrument used for indicating or recording small changes in barometric pressure or in the altitude of an aircraft. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Statoscope
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Statoscope
Literary usage of Statoscope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Aviation: An Understandable Presentation of Interesting and by Charles Brian Hayward (1919)
"Since the aneroid is useless for this purpose, a statoscope is employed—an
instrument that is the same in principle as a climbing meter. ..."
2. A Short Course on the Theory and Operation of the Free Balloon by Charles Harters Roth (1917)
"Neither the statoscope nor the anemoscope in itself is sufficient to tell the
... The statoscope indicates whether the balloon is rising or falling relative ..."
3. Symons's Meteorological Magazine (1895)
"by the records of a statoscope that they are really due to differences of pressure,
and by taking the statoscope into the open and sitting on a rock, ..."
4. Ballooning as a Sport by Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell (1907)
"The statoscope is an instrument to show whether one is rising or sinking, acting
on the same principle as the aneroid. I have used an anemometer mounted ..."
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