Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See rain gauge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A pluviometer; a rain-gage. See cut under pluviometer.
Wiktionary
- n. a rain gauge
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Meteor.) A rain gauge.
WordNet 3.0
- n. gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation
Etymologies
- From Latin ūdus ("wet") + meter. (Wiktionary)
- Latin ūdus, wet (contraction of ūvidus) + -meter. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘udometer’.
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phrontistery-u
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Logolepsy
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T'ain't going to drain no more
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
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Name, a Novel
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reesetee Rain gauge. Also called pluviometer. Sep 14, 2007