| 单词 | rain-gauge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrain-gauge 8. A graduated instrument or vessel for gauging or measuring the force or quantity of a fluctuating object, as a rainfall, tide, stream, wind, etc. Also rain-gauge, wind-gauge, etc.: see rain n.1, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > graduated instruments > for measuring a fluctuating object gauge1688 1688 Bp. G. Burnet Three Lett. State of Italy 145 There is a Gage, by which they Weigh the Water, and so they know how the Evaporation advances; it is of Silver, and is so made, that according to the weight of the Water, it sinks in to such a depth; & so by the degrees markt upon it, they know how heavy the Water is. 1763 W. Lewis Commercium Philosophico-technicum 286 A smiths bellows raised a mercurial gage about an inch so that it would have raised a water-gage about fourteen inches. 1830 J. Ross Narr. 2nd Voy. (1835) xxxv. 490 Nor is it an easy matter to measure the depth to which a fall of snow is equivalent; such is..the difficulty of securing any thing like an average within the compass of any gauge that has yet been devised. 1849 J. F. W. Herschel Man. Sci. Enq. (Lords Commissioners Admiralty) 285 One inch in depth of rain in the gauge will be measured by 100 inches of the graduated vessel. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. iv. 115 They were followed by about three inches (measured by the mercurial gauge) of air. 1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. ii. 31 The sea~waves were recorded on the self-registering tide gauges. < as lemmas |
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