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disdrometer

disdrometer noun: an instrument used to measure the drop-size distribution and velocity of falling hydrometeors.

Noun

disdrometer (plural disdrometers)

  1. An instrument used to measure the drop-size distribution and velocity of falling hydrometeors.
    • The scale and logistics of Vortex2 are enormous. Some 30 vehicles will participate, including 10 mobile radar trucks, four weather-balloon launchers, and two vehicles bearing a total of four disdrometers (to measure the size distribution of rain or hail).2009 May, Leora Frankel, “Funnel Vision”, in Corey S. Powell, Patrice G. Adcroft, Michael F. Di Ioia, editors, Discover, page 39

Forms of disdrometer

pluraldisdrometers

Questions about disdrometer

What does disdrometer mean?
Disdrometer means an instrument used to measure the drop-size distribution and velocity of falling hydrometeors.
What part of speech is disdrometer?
Disdrometer is a noun.
What is the plural of disdrometer?
The plural of disdrometer is disdrometers.

Words near disdrometer in the dictionary

  1. disdeigned
  2. disdeigning
  3. disdeigns
  4. disdiapason
  5. disdiapasons
  6. disdrometer
  7. disdrometers
  8. disdrometric
  9. disdrometry
  10. disdyakis triacontahedron
  11. Dise

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