A.Word.A.Day--anemometer

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Jul 8, 2010

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Words made with combining forms

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Illustration: from the book A Treatise on Meteorology by Elias Loomis; 1880.

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A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

anemometer

PRONUNCIATION:

(an-uh-MOM-i-tuhr)

MEANING:

noun: An instrument for measuring the speed of wind.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek anemo- (wind) + -meter (measure).

USAGE:

"The highest three-second wind gust measured by the anemometer on the Mile High Swinging Bridge was 77 mph May 9."
Above-Average Temperatures, Dryness in May at Grandfather Mountain; Asheville Citizen-Times (North Carolina); Jun 4, 2010.

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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless. -Lech Walesa, human rights activist, Polish president, Nobel laureate (b. 1943)

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