barometer

See also: Barometer and barométer

English

A barometer.

Etymology

From baro- +‎ -meter. Coined in 1665 by Robert Boyle as a name for the instrument invented by Torricelli some 20 years earlier; soon thereafter borrowed from English into various languages.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəˈɹɒm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/
  • (General American, Atlantic Canada) IPA(key): /bəˈɹɑ.mə.tɚ/, [bəˈɹɑ.mə.ɾɚ]
    • Audio (California):(file)
  • (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA(key): /bəˈɹɒm.ə.tɚ/, [bəˈɹɒm.ə.ɾɚ]
  • (Australia) IPA(key): /bəˈɹɔm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/, [bəˈɹɔm.ɪ.ɾə(ɹ)]
  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): [bəˈɹɔ̟m.ə.tə(ɹ)], [bəˈɹɔ̟m.ə.ɾə(ɹ)]
  • Rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

barometer (plural barometers)

  2. An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
    • 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:
      Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
  3. (figurative, by extension) Anything used as a gauge or indicator.
    • 1916 Jun, Michigan Law Review‎[1], volume 14, number 8, pp. 661-665:
      "An election is not necessarily an accurate barometer of public opinion. There are other ways in which it makes itself felt, through the press, the forum, discussion, and through every other type of communication."
    • 2006, Anthony Marcus, Where Have All the Homeless Gone?: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 152:
      The weakest members of society become social barometers or canaries in a coal mine.
    • 2022 May 4, Tommy Stubbington, Martin Arnold, “ECB policy tightening sends eurozone borrowing costs soaring”, in Financial Times‎[2], London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC:
      Italy’s 10-year yield spread versus Germany, considered a barometer of political and economic risks in the euro area, climbed as high as 1.9 percentage points on Tuesday, its widest since the early stages of the pandemic when investors dumped riskier eurozone government debt.
      (Can we archive this URL?)
    • 2023 August 10, “Owners of ‘LGBT’ Swatch watches could be jailed for three years in Malaysia”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      Elections in six Malaysian states on Saturday will serve as a barometer of public sentiment for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government against a powerful opposition consisting of Malay-Muslim political parties.
      (Can we archive this URL?)

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Cornish

Etymology

Borrowed from English barometer.

Noun

barometer m (plural barometrow)

  1. barometer

Mutation

Mutation of barometer
radical soft aspirate hard mixed
barometer varometer unchanged parometer farometer,
varometer*

* after 'th
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  • “barometer” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”) +‎ -meter.

Noun

barometer n (definite singular barometeret or barometret, indefinite plural barometre, definite plural barometrene)

  1. a barometer

References

Dutch

Etymology

From English barometer, perhaps through French baromètre. By surface analysis, baro- +‎ meter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌbaː.roːˈmeː.tər/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ro‧me‧ter

Noun

barometer m (plural barometers, diminutive barometertje n)

  1. (meteorology) barometer [from late 17th c.]

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: barometer
  • → Papiamentu: barometer

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch barometer, from English barometer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.ro.ˈme.tər/
  • Rhymes: -tər
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ro‧me‧têr

Noun

barometêr

  1. barometer
    1. an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure
    2. (figuratively) anything used as a gauge or indicator

Derived terms

  • barometer air raksa
  • barometer aneroid
  • barometer bahari
  • barometer baku mutlak
  • barometer Fortin
  • barometer gunung
  • barometer Kew
  • barometer perekam

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”) +‎ -meter.

Noun

barometer n (definite singular barometeret or barometret, indefinite plural barometer or barometre, definite plural barometra or barometrene)

  1. a barometer

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”) +‎ -meter.

Noun

barometer n (definite singular barometeret, indefinite plural barometer, definite plural barometera)

  1. a barometer

References

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /barɔmecer/, [ˈbarɔmecer]
  • Rhymes: -ecer
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ro‧me‧ter

Noun

barometer m inan (genitive singular barometra, nominative plural barometre, genitive plural barometrov, declension pattern of stroj)

  1. barometer

References

  • “barometer”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Swedish

Noun

barometer c

  1. (meteorology) a barometer
  2. (figuratively, by extension) a barometer (something used as a gauge or indicator)
    väljarbarometer
    election poll ("voter barometer")

Declension

Declension of barometer
nominative genitive
singular indefinite barometer barometers
definite barometern barometerns
plural indefinite barometrar barometrars
definite barometrarna barometrarnas

Derived terms

  • aneroidbarometer
  • barometerfall
  • barometerstånd
  • barometertryck
  • cykelbarometer
  • dosbarometer
  • formbarometer
  • konjunkturbarometer
  • valbarometer
  • väljarbarometer
  • barometrisk

References

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