Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any device for showing the direction of the wind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
instrument that shows thedirection of thewind ; a windvane ; aweathercock ; usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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He invented the anemoscope and the air-balance, and being thus enabled to weight the air and note the changes that preceded storms and calms, he was able still further to dumfound his wondering fellow-Magde-burgers by more or less accurate predictions about the weather.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
chained_bear commented on the word anemoscope
"... a machine invented to tell the changes of the wind. It should consist of an index moving about a circular plate, like the dial of a clock, on which the 32 points of a compass are drawn, instead of hours...."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 18
October 13, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word anemoscope
"Now, some 118,500 observations later, Glenn was still at it—five observations a day (the three standard Signal Corps readings, plus two more for local records) taken with his four thermometers, two barometers, one anemometer with a self-registering attachment, one anemoscope, rain gauge, telescope, and field glass."
—David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 126
November 11, 2008
reesetee commented on the word anemoscope
You're reading The Children's Blizzard? Good book!
November 11, 2008