atmometern.
/atˈmɒmɪtə/ Physics.
An instrument for determining the amount of evaporation from a moist surface in a given time.
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atmidometer?1810
atmometer1815
evaporimeter1828
vaporimeter1878
transpirometer1904
1815 Edinb. Rev. 24 348 Mr. Leslie has invented another instrument which..he has named the Atmometer.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 69 Meteorologists occasionally measure the rapidity of evaporation by means of..atmometers.
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