ANEROID

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Containing no liquid; -- said of kind of barometer. Aneroid barometer, a barometer the action of which depends on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure.

2.
n.

An aneroid barometer.


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