"ometer" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From -ometer.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1843, John Holmes Agnew, Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art:",
          "text": "On the wall were hanging thermometers, barometers, and hydrometers, and every other sort of ometer, numberless, dusty, and mysterious; […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1887, N. A. Shenstone, Anecdotes of Henry Ward Beecher, page 328:",
          "text": "Oh, that some one would invent an ometer which, hung over the heart and lungs, might decide when a man ought to stop brain work. The man who invented such an ometer would make a fortune for himself […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, Orations of American Orators:",
          "text": "We have thermometers to tell the heat and barometers to tell the air and 'ometers hung in the engine-room to tell the pressure of steam, and 'ometers to gauge and measure almost everything.",
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        "A measuring instrument."
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          "measuring",
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          "instrument",
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        "(humorous) A measuring instrument."
      ],
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  "word": "ometer"
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  "etymology_text": "From -ometer.",
  "forms": [
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        {
          "ref": "1843, John Holmes Agnew, Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art:",
          "text": "On the wall were hanging thermometers, barometers, and hydrometers, and every other sort of ometer, numberless, dusty, and mysterious; […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, N. A. Shenstone, Anecdotes of Henry Ward Beecher, page 328:",
          "text": "Oh, that some one would invent an ometer which, hung over the heart and lungs, might decide when a man ought to stop brain work. The man who invented such an ometer would make a fortune for himself […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, Orations of American Orators:",
          "text": "We have thermometers to tell the heat and barometers to tell the air and 'ometers hung in the engine-room to tell the pressure of steam, and 'ometers to gauge and measure almost everything.",
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        "A measuring instrument."
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        "(humorous) A measuring instrument."
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  "word": "ometer"
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