sympiesometer

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“compression”) +‎ -meter.

Noun

sympiesometer (plural sympiesometers)

1. A sensitive kind of barometer, in which the pressure of the atmosphere, acting upon a liquid in the lower part of the instrument, compresses a gas in the upper part.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sympiesometer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)