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Same as Hectare, Hectogram, Hectoliter, and Hectometer.

An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet- shaped part; galeate.

An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.

asured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer.

Same as Hæmatachometer.

A form of hemoglobinometer.

Same as Hæmochromometer.

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See Odometer.

An instrument for making of angular measurements.

An instrument for measuring time.

An instrument for determining the depth of the sea water by its pressure.

An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact.

A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; -- in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc. Nichol.

Of or pertaining to hydrometeorology, or to rain, clouds, storms, etc.

That branch of meteorology which relates to, or treats of, water in the atmosphere, or its phenomena, as rain, clouds, snow, hail, storms, etc.

etc., and called by various specific names according to its construction or use, as tachometer, rheometer, hydrometer, pendulum, etc.; a current gauge.

An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere. Daniell's hygrometer, a form of hygrometer consisting of a bent glass tube terminating in two bulbs, the one covered with muslin, the other of black glass, and containing ether and a thermometer. Ether being poured on the muslin, the black ball, cool…

anything exceeding the ordinary standard. When a man rises beyond six foot, he is an hypermeter. Addison.