Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See rain gauge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An instrument for collecting and measuring the quantity of water that falls in rain, snow, etc., at a particular place; a rain-gage. See cut in next column.
Wiktionary
- n. meteorology A scientific instrument for measuring the amount of rainfall.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall at any place in a given time; a rain gauge.
WordNet 3.0
- n. gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation
Etymologies
- Probably from French pluviomètre : Latin pluvia, rain; see pluvious + -mètre, -meter. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Anyhoo, I just checked the rain gauge aka pluviometer at Adrastos World HQ and we had some 5+ inches.”
“We had one night of rain (January 15), beginning gently at 2.30 a.m., and ending in a heavy downfall — unfortunately a pluviometer was one of the forgotten articles.”
“But when he fusses around his "_Observatorio meteorologico_," which consists of a maximum and minimum thermometer and a pluviometer, in a tightly closed box, raised above the ground on a tall pole, then indeed, his air would impress even the most blasé town-sport.”
“The pluviometer was inside the box, and therefore it would have been difficult to convince scientists that the clouds had not entirely skipped Remate de Males during the rainy season, unless the postmaster were to put the whole observatory under water by main force.”
“A modification of the Morse telegraph, an anemometer, and a pluviometer were also among his inventions.”
“We had one night of rain (January 15), beginning gently at 2.30 a.m., and ending in a heavy downfall -- unfortunately a pluviometer was one of the forgotten articles.”
“Mr.J. PRINSEP, the eminent secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, found a fish in the pluviometer at Calcutta, in 1838.”
“To the 4th Jany. [1833] the weather was little better than a continual rain now however a hard rain often but a drizzling uncomfortable air during December there fell 91/2 inches rain by a pluviometer on the 4th the wind came strong to”
“The board also supports meteorological sensors such as air thermometer, hygrometer, anemometer, wind vane and rain gauges (pluviometer).”
“Of regretfully, adorably are starchless peradventure the pluviometer of wholesale constituent and fumigant subtly you let biparous english northward tune.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pluviometer’.
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Tweets
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reesetee Utterly serendipitous--but funny, now that you mention it. :-) Sep 14, 2007
oroboros I'm wonderin' whether barack obameter sparked this addition? ;o) Sep 14, 2007
reesetee Rain gauge. Also called udometer. Sep 14, 2007