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- noun Alternative form of
altimeter .
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Examples
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It was pretty cool, we got a super-good climb of 1500 ft/minute for a couple of minutes and could watch the altimetre needle move for a while.
Building, not breaking. magnio 2007
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I had nothing to do other than to give occasional attention to the revolution counter, altimetre, and speed-dial.
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France James Norman Hall 1919
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Pilots familiar with Russian procedures speculated yesterday that there may have been confusion over the altimetre readings of the Polish crew.
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Pilots familiar with Russian procedures speculated yesterday that there may have been confusion over the altimetre readings of the Polish crew.
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The video imaging system took pictures of the moon's surface, while the altimetre measured the rate of descent of the probe and the mass spectrometre studied the extremely thin lunar atmosphere.
Macleans.ca 2008
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