Definitions for hypsometer

hypsometer hyp·som·e·ter

Spelling: [hip-som-i-ter]
IPA: /hɪpˈsɒm ɪ tər/

Hypsometer is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 766 anagrams from letters in hypsometer (eehmoprsty).

Definitions for hypsometer

noun

  1. thermobarometer (def 1).

Origin of hypsometer

First recorded in 1860-65; hypso- + -meter

Examples for hypsometer

According to the hypsometer and our aneroid barometer we were at a height of 11,075 feet -- this was in lat.

The hypsometer was not at that time an important instrument.

Associated words: altimetry, altimeter, hypsometry, hypsometer.

After taking the reading we greedily drank the water which had been heated for the hypsometer.

The hypsometer showed 11,070 feet above the sea; we had therefore reached a greater altitude than the Butcher's.

I took the observation for longitude and latitude, found the height by hypsometer, and took some photographs.

The hypsometer is only an instrument for determining the boiling-point, which gives one the height above the sea.

The readings of the hypsometer gave practically the same result day after day; the ascent we were looking for failed to appear.

Mertz boiled the hypsometer when necessary to ascertain our elevation above sea-level.

An instrument sold by dealers for the measuring of heights is known as the hypsometer.

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