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brontometers

brontometers is the plural of brontometer.

Meaning of brontometer

Noun

brontometer (plural brontometers)

  1. (dated) An instrument for noting or recording the phenomena that accompany a thunderstorm.
    • The fans make one revolution for each metre of wind that passes, and send an electric current to the brontometer, where it acts on an electro-magnet, and tends to draw this (2nd) pen towards the left; but a train of clockwork is constantly tending to draw the pen to the right, the joint result...1890 May 8, The Meteorological Magazine, page 195

Questions about brontometers

What is brontometers the plural of?
Brontometers is the plural of brontometer.

Words near brontometers in the dictionary

  1. brontographs
  2. brontologies
  3. brontology
  4. brontomancy
  5. brontometer
  6. brontometers
  7. brontophobia
  8. brontornithid
  9. brontornithids
  10. brontos
  11. brontosaur

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