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Manometer - What does it mean?

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manometer

English

(wikipedia manometer)

Alternative forms

* manometre (nonstandard)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instrument to measure pressure in a fluid, especially a double-legged liquid column gauge used to measure the difference in the pressures of two fluids.
  • * 1872 , The American Journal of Science
    • As soon as the manometer of the pump indicated the maximum of rarification, the apparatus was inclined
  • * 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow :
    • Pökler helped in working out the Halbmodelle solution: bisecting the model lengthwise and mounting it flat-side to the wall of the test chamber, bringing the tubes through that way to all the manometers outside.

    See also

    * sphygmomanometer - measures blood pressure

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.