Definition of Statoscope

1. Noun. An instrument used for indicating or recording small changes in barometric pressure or in the altitude of an aircraft. ¹

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Definition of Statoscope

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Statoscope

statives
statoblast
statoblasts
statocracies
statocracy
statocratic
statocyst
statocysts
statoid
statoids
statolith
statoliths
stator
stator coil
stators
statoscope (current term)
statoscopes
stats
statto
stattos
statua
statuaries
statuary
statuas
statue
statue maker
statued
statueless
statuelike
statues

Literary usage of Statoscope

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Aviation: An Understandable Presentation of Interesting and by Charles Brian Hayward (1919)
"Since the aneroid is useless for this purpose, a statoscope is employed—an instrument that is the same in principle as a climbing meter. ..."

2. A Short Course on the Theory and Operation of the Free Balloon by Charles Harters Roth (1917)
"Neither the statoscope nor the anemoscope in itself is sufficient to tell the ... The statoscope indicates whether the balloon is rising or falling relative ..."

3. Symons's Meteorological Magazine (1895)
"by the records of a statoscope that they are really due to differences of pressure, and by taking the statoscope into the open and sitting on a rock, ..."

4. Ballooning as a Sport by Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell (1907)
"The statoscope is an instrument to show whether one is rising or sinking, acting on the same principle as the aneroid. I have used an anemometer mounted ..."

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