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aneroid

[ an-uh-roid ]

adjective

  1. using no fluid.


aneroid

/ ˈæəˌɔɪ /

adjective

  1. not containing a liquid
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of aneroid1

1840–50; a- 6 + Greek ŧ ( ó ) wet, fluid (akin to â to flow) + -oid
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of aneroid1

C19: from French, from an- + Greek ŧos wet + -oid
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Systolic and diastolic blood pressure were measured using an aneroid sphygmomanometer.

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In front of me there’s a little aneroid barometer, a present from my son Tom, which also tells me the temperature and the humidity.

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Trekking to a mountain top, he used an aneroid barometer to help him calculate its height.

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All the figures given in this chapter are for sea level and if your house is 1900 feet above you must move the copper hand of your aneroid 1.95 inches from the pressure hand.

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They were made by Meyer most ingeniously of a lever balance taken from an aneroid barometer and connected with a three-cornered rule; the weights used were shot from their shot-gun ammunition.

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