单词 | pluvioscope |
释义 | pluvioscopen. rare. A kind of instrument to measure rainfall; a pluviometer. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > meteorological instruments > [noun] > rain-gauge hyetometer1730 ombrometer1744 pluviometer1755 rain machine1768 rain gauge1770 udometer1825 hyetometrograph1886 pluviograph1886 pluvioscope1887 ombrograph1895 1887 Nature 17 Mar. 479/1 Pluviometric observations taken at Paris during the years 1860–70 with the pluvioscope invented by the author. 1997 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) (Nexis) 29 May (Arun. section) b1 After being told a pluvioscope is a rain gauge, the 12-year-old repeated the word, took a deep breath, leaned toward the microphone and slowly spelled it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1887 |
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