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aerometry|ˌɛəˈrɒmɪtrɪ| [mod. f. aero- + Gr. -µετρία measuring: see -metry.] The measuring of the air; the science of pneumatics.
1731Bailey, vol. II, [the Latin form] Aerometria. 1751Chambers Cycl., Aerometry includes the laws of the motion, gravitation, pression, elasticity, rarefaction, condensation, etc. of the atmospherical fluid. 1777Phil. Trans. LXVII. 413 The application of the laws of aërometry. 1819Pantologia I, Aerometry, a scientific term which has now given way to the equivalent term pneumatics. |