An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure. It is constructed on the following principles: an aneroid capsule (Vidie capsule, which is a thin, disk-shaped box or capsule, usually metallic) is partially evacuated of gas, and is restrained from collapsing by an external or internal spring. The deflection of the spring will be nearly proportiona...
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(from the article `atmospheric pressure`) ...pressure), which indicates the height of a column of mercury that exactly balances the weight of the column of atmosphere over the barometer. ... A nonliquid barometer called the aneroid barometer is widely used in portable instruments and in aircraft altimeters because of its smaller size an...
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An instrument built around a metal structure that bends with changing air pressure. These changes are recorded on a pointer that moves back and forth across a printed scale.
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A barometer introduced to the domestic market, c.1850, which used disk-like, flexible metal bellows containing a partical vacuum, instead of a collumn of mercury, to measure changes in air pressure. The term aneroid is derived from a Greek word meaning 'liquid-free'. As the air pressure changes, the movement of the bellows is enlarged by being link …...
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An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure that does not use a liquid. It is built around a metal structure that bends with changing air pressure.
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Barometer that measures atmospheric pressure via the expansion and contraction of a sealed hollow cell which is partially depleted of air.
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An aneroid barometer is a barometer first invented in the mid 19th century, not containing a liquid, but constructed on a totally different principle from a mercurial barometer. Various forms of aneroid barometer have existed, the most popular form consists of a cylindrical metal box exhausted of air, with a thin corrugated metal lid. As the pressu...
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n] - a barometer that measures pressure without using fluids
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an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure ; it is constructed on the following principles: an aneroid capsule (vidie capsule, which is a thin, disk-shaped box or capsule, usually metallic) is partially evacuated of gas, and is restrained from collapsing by an external or internal spring; the deflection of the spring will be nearly proportion...
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aneroid noun a barometer that measures pressure without using fluids
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A barometer whose pressure sensor consists of an aneroid capsule, a thin, hollow disk partially evacuated and sealed. The difference between the exterior air pressure and the interior pressure causes the disk to expand or contract slightly. This movement is amplified by a spring or gear mechanism to indicate changes in air pressure on a scale or re...
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Kind of barometer
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a device for measuring atmospheric pressure, often specially calibrated for use as an altimeter, consisting of a box or chamber partially exhausted of air, having an elastic top and a pointer to indicate the degree of compression of the top caused by the external air. Cf.
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