Defn: An apparatus which transmits automatically to a central station atmospheric changes as marked by the anemometer, barometer, thermometer, etc.
METEOROSCOPE Me`te*or"o*scope, n. Etym: [Gr. météoroscope. See Meteor.] (Astron.) (a) An astrolabe; a planisphere. [Obs.] (b) An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
METEOROUS
Me*te"o*rous ( or ), a. Etym: [See Meteor.]
Defn: Of the nature or appearance of a meteor.
-METER -me"ter. Etym: [L. metrum measure, or the allied Gr. Meter rhythm.]
Defn: A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.
METER
Me"ter, n. Etym: [From Mete to measure.]
1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.
2. An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. — W, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it.
METER
Me"ter, n.