ANEROID


Meaning of ANEROID in English

adj. & n.

adj. (of a barometer) that measures air-pressure by its action on the elastic lid of an evacuated box, not by the height of a column of fluid.

n. an aneroid barometer.

[ F anéroïde f. Gk a- not + neros water ]

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