ometer

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Definition of ometer

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (humorous)A measuring instrument.
    “On the wall were hanging thermometers, barometers, and hydrometers, and every other sort of ometer, numberless, dusty, and mysterious; […]”
    “Oh, that some one would invent an ometer which, hung over the heart and lungs, might decide when a man ought to stop brain work. The man who invented such an ometer would make a fortune for himself […]”
    “We have thermometers to tell the heat and barometers to tell the air and 'ometers hung in the engine-room to tell the pressure of steam, and 'ometers to gauge and measure almost everything.”

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Etymology

From -ometer.

Anagrams of ometer

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