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pluviometer

[ploo-vee-om-i-ter] / ˌplu viˈɒm ɪ tər /
NOUN
rain gauge
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For the details of construction the reader is referred to the next chapter, where he will find the instrument described in connection with Osler’s anemometer, as the “pluviometer.”

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Mr. J. PRINSEP, the eminent secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, found a fish in the pluviometer at Calcutta, in 1838.—Journ.

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The pluviometer is placed on the right in the figure, P P being the plane of the roof of the building.

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