Anemometer Definition

Anemometer Sentence Examples

• Lind's anemometer, which consists simply of a U tube containing liquid with one end bent into a horizontal direction to face the wind, is perhaps the original form from which the tube class of instrument has sprung.

• The other forms of velocity anemometer may be described as belonging to the windmill type.

• The great advantage of the tube anemometer lies in the fact that the exposed part can be mounted on a high pole, and requires no oiling or attention for years; and the registering part can be placed in any convenient position, no matter how far from the external part.

• The Robinson anemometer, invented (1846) by Dr Thomas Romney Robinson, of Armagh Observatory, is the best-known and most generally used instrument, and belongs to the first of these.

• Most weather stations measure wind speed using a spinning cup anemometer, which rotates depending on the wind.