(n.) An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both are barometers of acceptable levels of violent punishment and their elimination is a hallmark of a maturing and decent society.
(2) In the Caribbean , resort costs have fallen sharply in Barbados, accounting for a 26% drop in the barometer basket to £84.24.
(3) Our Guardian Cities global city brand barometer certainly saw the pressure rise in the comments thread.
(4) These data suggest that the clinical neurological examination alone is not an adequate barometer to predict neurourological dysfunction and that video-urodynamic evaluation provides a more precise diagnosis for each patient.
(5) The Stoke contest is likely to offer the clearest barometer since the referendum of whether leave-voting Labour supporters still trust the party.
(6) Our recent Manufacturing Barometer survey, which questioned the leaders of over 500 businesses, provides strong clues as to why manufacturers are bucking the trend and, more importantly, how they are doing it.
(7) Despite Hooper's triumph at the Directors Guild of America awards a month ago , which are generally considered an accurate barometer of the Academy's intentions (only six times in their 63-year history have they not correlated), momentum had seemed to be falling back into the hands of David Fincher, who took both the Golden Globe and the Bafta two weeks ago.
(8) Gavin Kibble, the project manager at Coventry foodbank, which fed 7,500 people in 2010-11, its first year of operation, described the foodbank as a "barometer of the state of the nation".
(9) Two closely watched barometers of factory activity released on Tuesday were at multi-year lows, reviving concerns about the state of the country’s economy which caused a major sell-off on the world’s financial markets last week .
(10) After suffering badly during the recession and the UK's sluggish recovery, Thursday's survey showed that the Purchasing Managers' Index – a barometer of manufacturing's strength – rose from 52.9 in June to 54.6 in July.
(11) The latest Euro-barometer of public opinion shows for the first time that overall distrust of the EU outstrips trust, predominantly so in Britain, Germany and France.
(12) Legislators not on the secretive panels often look to their colleagues who serve on them as barometers of opinion about the appropriateness of intelligence activities.
(13) I know there was discrimination in 1965, but I also know that what we were doing then is not a relevant barometer of what we are doing now in 2013.
(14) Dealers and analysts were divided on whether sales figures, which are often read as a barometer of the economy, could sustain their growth throughout the year.
(15) It shares first place with Sri Lanka in the annual Post Office Worldwide Holiday Costs Barometer – which compares in-resort prices for a shopping basket of eight items including drinks, suncream and a meal for two – as the best value places to stay out of 42 surveyed.
(16) As a key barometer for the mood of the NHS, this is entirely understandable, especially in years when one set of changes after another seemed to loom ahead, waiting to be foisted on a service which could only wait and hope it survived.
(17) The presence of traditional fishermen is a barometer of a sea’s health.
(18) The Ifo business climate index, a barometer of economic health in Europe's largest economy, rose to 101.4 from 100.0 last month, an increase for the first time since six consecutive declines.
(19) Obama’s most vociferous critics are unwilling to call for a re-escalation in Afghanistan, a barometer of how brittle US support for its longest war actually is.
(20) The television satirist seen as the barometer for free speech in post-revolutionary Egypt, Bassem Youssef , has ended his show because he feels it is no longer safe to satirise Egyptian politics.
Hygrometer
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fiber-dimensional hygrometer yielded mean aw values and precision estimates that did not differ significantly from those obtained with the electrical hygrometers for (NH4)2SO4slush, KNO3 slush, sweetened condensed milk, pancake syrup, and cheese spread.
(2) The calibration responses for another electrical hygrometer (Hygrodynamics) were nonlinear.
(3) Then the hair hygrometer is no longer capable of reacting sufficiently to the fluctuation of the relative humidity of the bath.
(4) It consists of a special cylindrical casing into which the sensor of a hair hygrometer has been introduced.
(5) However, the mean aw value for a soy sauce was 0.838 for the electrical hygrometers compared with 0.911 for the fiber-dimensional hygrometer.
(6) The fiber-dimensional hygrometer was affected by a volatile component(s) in the soy sauce that caused an erroneously high aw value.
(7) Average absolute percent difference between predicted and assigned aw values for the linear model ranged from 0.3 to 0.7% for a fiber-dimensional hygrometer (Abbeon) and 3 electrical hygrometers (Beckman, Rotronics, and Weather Measure).
(8) For each of the most commonly used humidifiers inspired gas humidity was measured under routine clinical conditions with an electronic hygrometer.
(9) Proximal airway humidity was measured during mechanical ventilation in 14 infants using an electronic hygrometer.
(10) The hair hygrometer has to be protected inside the device casing against a contamination by the bath or the condensing drycleaning solvent.
(11) Using a precision thermocouple hygrometer, requiring just 5 microliters of sample, the tear osmotic pressures of 6 subjects were monitored throughout their adaptation to rigid contact lenses.
(12) On the basis of the experimental results obtained instructions are given for the employment of hair hygrometers in drycleaning and for the design of the device casing: 1.
(13) Provided that the technical requirements are met, hair hygrometers may also be considered as reliable measuring instruments in the practice of drycleaning.
(14) It could be observed that a malfunction of the hair hygrometer mainly occurred when the hairs fixed in the sensor were moistened by the drycleaning bath or by the drycleaning solvent (perchloroethylene), respectively.
(15) This paper presents the procedures and equations to be utilized for measurement of evaporative water loss (mw), by use of the dew-point hygrometer, in small animals exposed to air containing water vapor in an open-flow system.
(16) During the whole night, 2 local sweating rates on the right and the left sides of the upper chest were continuously recorded from 12 cm2 area capsules using a dew-point hygrometer technique, while applying local thermal clamps, a constant 2 degrees C difference in local skin temperatures being imposed between the two symmetrical skin areas.
(17) A ventilated hygrometer system has been used to study the evaporative water loss (EWL) from the excised wound of rats with and without these dressings.
(18) Pooled estimates of reproducibility (Sx) in the 3 studies were 0.008 for the fiber-dimensional hygrometer and 0.010 for the electrical hygrometers; these values were not significantly different from those reported in the study that verified the current official AOAC method.
(19) In the studies published and discussed in the present paper, the causes for the malfunction of the hair hygrometer, in the device mentioned were determined.
(20) The aim of this study was to compare the variation of electrometric data generated by 4 different instruments (Skicon Hygrometer, 2 CM420 and a CM820 corneometer) in normal and experimentally damaged skin displaying surface roughness.