"brontometer" meaning in English

See brontometer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: brontometers [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”) + -meter. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|βροντή||thunder}} Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”), {{suffix|en||meter}} + -meter Head templates: {{en-noun}} brontometer (plural brontometers)
  1. (dated) An instrument for noting or recording the phenomena that accompany a thunderstorm. Tags: dated Categories (topical): Meteorology

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for brontometer meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "βροντή",
        "4": "",
        "5": "thunder"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”)",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "meter"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -meter",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”) + -meter.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brontometers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "brontometer (plural brontometers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -meter",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Meteorology",
          "orig": "en:Meteorology",
          "parents": [
            "Atmosphere",
            "Earth sciences",
            "Nature",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1890 May 8, The Meteorological Magazine, page 195",
          "text": "The fans make one revolution for each metre of wind that passes, and send an electric current to the brontometer, where it acts on an electro-magnet, and tends to draw this (2nd) pen towards the left; but a train of clockwork is constantly tending to draw the pen to the right, the joint result being that the pen continuously shows, not the total motion (as is the case with most anemometers), but the actual velocity almost second by second.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instrument for noting or recording the phenomena that accompany a thunderstorm."
      ],
      "id": "en-brontometer-en-noun-5OI~fy5d",
      "links": [
        [
          "instrument",
          "instrument"
        ],
        [
          "phenomena",
          "phenomenon"
        ],
        [
          "thunderstorm",
          "thunderstorm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) An instrument for noting or recording the phenomena that accompany a thunderstorm."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brontometer"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "βροντή",
        "4": "",
        "5": "thunder"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”)",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "meter"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -meter",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”) + -meter.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brontometers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "brontometer (plural brontometers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms suffixed with -meter",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "en:Meteorology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1890 May 8, The Meteorological Magazine, page 195",
          "text": "The fans make one revolution for each metre of wind that passes, and send an electric current to the brontometer, where it acts on an electro-magnet, and tends to draw this (2nd) pen towards the left; but a train of clockwork is constantly tending to draw the pen to the right, the joint result being that the pen continuously shows, not the total motion (as is the case with most anemometers), but the actual velocity almost second by second.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instrument for noting or recording the phenomena that accompany a thunderstorm."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "instrument",
          "instrument"
        ],
        [
          "phenomena",
          "phenomenon"
        ],
        [
          "thunderstorm",
          "thunderstorm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) An instrument for noting or recording the phenomena that accompany a thunderstorm."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "brontometer"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.