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manometer


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Manometer  \Ma*nom"e*ter\,  n.  [Gr.  ?  thin,  rare  +  -meter:  cf  F. 
  manom[`e]tre.] 
  An  instrument  for  measuring  the  tension  or  elastic  force  of 
  gases,  steam,  etc.,  constructed  usually  on  the  principle  of 
  allowing  the  gas  to  exert  its  elastic  force  in  raising  a 
  column  of  mercury  in  an  open  tube,  or  in  compressing  a 
  portion  of  air  or  other  gas  in  a  closed  tube  with  mercury  or 
  other  liquid  intervening,  or  in  bending  a  metallic  or  other 
  spring  so  as  to  set  in  motion  an  index;  a  pressure  gauge.  See 
  {Pressure},  and  Illust.  of  {Air  pump}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  manometer 
  n  :  an  instrument  for  comparing  pressures 




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