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anemometer

noun as in weather station

noun as in weather vane

noun as in wind gauge

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Example Sentences

In the painting he was standing next to a globe and holding an anemometer, a device for measuring wind speed.

And on parade day, they will spread out along the route with anemometers to monitor weather conditions in real-time.

Dr. Lee Ju-hyung has largely avoided restaurants in recent months, but on the few occasions he’s dined out, he’s developed a strange, if sensible, habit: whipping out a small anemometer to check the airflow.

Officers were checking seven wind-detection machines, known as anemometers, as the balloons proceeded down the route from West 77th Street and Central Park West to the grandstand at Herald Square.

As the inflated characters hover their way downtown, the supervisors are fed information from the anemometers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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