wind gauge

noun

An anemometer.

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anemometerwind gage
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Meanings

nounwind gauge (plural wind gauges)

plural wind gauges

  1. An anemometer.

    Detailed records are kept of the strains imposed on the bridge by the violent gales that frequently sweep the firth, and a self-recording wind gauge is fixed on the top of the tower.

    1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna gauge for recording the speed and direction of wind

Similar
anemometerwind gage
Broader
gaugegage
Also see
anemometerwindmeter

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