Applausometer vs Applauseometer - What's the difference?
applausometer | applauseometer | Alternative forms |
(informal, US) A device of dubious accuracy used to measure the volume of an audience’s applause.
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* 2001 : Stanley Marcus, Quest for the Best ,
Applausometer is an alternative form of applauseometer.
As nouns the difference between applausometer and applauseometer
is that applausometer is while applauseometer is (informal|us) a device of dubious accuracy used to measure the volume of an audience’s applause.applauseometer
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Alternative forms
* applausometerNoun
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- Its four-color animation board has message capabilities, angled lenses for easy daytime viewing, and an applauseometer , which measures the crowd’s Longhorn-cheering levels.
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- Again, there was scattered applause. I looked into the crowd at Nelson. He told me he was bringing a new invention — an applauseometer — to the debate.
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- Is the best measurable? If so, by what kind of instrumentation? Certainly not by an “applauseometer ,” as used to record the volume of applause on the “Major Bowes Amateur Night Talent” shows during the heyday of radio. I know of no universal empirical devices, but I do believe that the best is discernible to the observant eye.