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comb. form of Gr. βροντή thunder, as in brontogram |ˈbrɒntəʊgræm|, the record made by a brontometer or brontograph; ˈbrontograph, a recording brontometer; also, a chart of the phenomena recorded by that instrument; brontoˈlogical a., pertaining to brontology; bronˈtometer, an instrument for recording the phenomena associated with thunderstorms; brontoˈphobia, intense dread of thunder and thunderstorms.
1888Symons's Monthly Meteorol. Mag. June 71 Our German friends..were clearly the first as to thunder-storms, or rather Brontological research. Ibid. May 50 Messrs. Richard Frères, of Paris, are constructing for Mr. Symons a very complicated apparatus (Brontometer)..for recording the details of thunderstorms. 1905W. G. Holmes Justinian & Theodora I. iii. 298 He was affected with brontophobia in his later years. |