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aneroid, a. and n.|ˈænərɔɪd|
[a. mod.Fr. anéroïde, f. Gr. ἀ priv. + νηρ-ός wet, damp: see -oid.]
A. adj. Specifying a barometer, in which the pressure of the air is measured, not by the height of a column of mercury or other fluid which it sustains, but by its action on the elastic lid of a box exhausted of air.
1848Mechan. Mag. 19 Aug. [‘Aneroid’ does not occur in the description of ‘the new French barometer,’ but in the index to the volume.] 1849Dent (title) The Construction and Uses of the Aneroid Barometer. 1863Ansted Ionian Isl. 88 To take with me an aneroid barometer, as I desired to check the various statements..as to the height.
B. n. [Short for ‘aneroid barometer.’]
1849Dent in Athenæum 27 Jan., The Aneroid of M. Vidi. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. iv. (ed. 2) 93 In the aneroid, atmospherical pressure is measured by its effect in altering the shape of a small, hermetically sealed, metallic box. 1879C. King in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 114/2 The pocket aneroid..resembles a watch in size and appearance.
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1859L. Oliphant China & Japan I. xii. 225 A precipice 1000 feet high by aneroid measurement. |