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hypsometer

NOUN
  1. an altimeter that uses the boiling point of water to determine land elevation

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  • These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
  • I have ranked many of the hypsometers by my interpretation of 5 main factors.
  • If the tree is taller than your hypsometer will measure, stand 50 feet away.
  • The height of a dominant or co-dominant tree in each plot was measured using an hypsometer and measuring tape.
  • This invention refers to a hypsometer having controlled heating, particularly for use in metrological radio-sondes.
  • The hypsometers (water boilers) can be seen at each lab station, and the closest one actually has a plume of steam escaping from its top.
  • The instruments we carried were two sextants and three artificial horizons -- two glass and one mercury -- a hypsometer for measuring heights, and one aneroid. The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole
  • Thus the theodolite was the only instrument retained, and the camera, photographic films (exposed and unexposed), hypsometer, thermometers, rifle, ammunition and other sundries were all thrown away. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
  • The water level is simply raised to change the hypsometer into a variable temperature water bath.
  • The most reliable tools for this purpose are an Abney hand level, a hypsometer, or a transit.
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