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单词 altimeter
释义 altimeter
 /al tim"i teuhr, al"teuh mee'teuhr/,  n.  
  1. a sensitive aneroid barometer that is graduated and calibrated, used chiefly in aircraft for finding distance above sea level, terrain, or some other reference point by a comparison of air pressures.
  2. any device used for the same purpose that operates by some other means, as by radio waves.
 [1820-30; ALTI- + -METER]
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