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limnometer|lɪmˈnɒmɪtə(r)|
Also erron. limni-.
[f. Gr. λίµνη lake + -meter.]
An apparatus for measuring the variations of level in lakes.
1852Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. II. xvi. 14 The Marquis del Toro has undertaken to put this design into execution..establishing limnometers, on a bottom of gneiss rock, so common in the lake of Valencia. 1879Nature 23 Oct. 615/2 M. Edouard Sarasin has recently established a registering limnimeter..near the eastern extremity of the Lake of Geneva. |