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English
Etymology
From Latin altus (“high”) + -meter.
Noun
altometer (plural altometers)
- A theodolite.
References
- Edward H Knight (1877) “Altometer”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. Illustrated with upwards of Seven Thousand Engravings.">…], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton : The Riverside Press.">…], →OCLC.
- “altometer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.