See also: -ometer and -o-meter

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Etymology

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From -ometer.

Noun

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ometer (plural ometers)

  1. (humorous) A measuring instrument.
    • 1843, John Holmes Agnew, Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art:
      On the wall were hanging thermometers, barometers, and hydrometers, and every other sort of ometer, numberless, dusty, and mysterious; []
    • 1887, N. A. Shenstone, Anecdotes of Henry Ward Beecher, page 328:
      Oh, that some one would invent an ometer which, hung over the heart and lungs, might decide when a man ought to stop brain work. The man who invented such an ometer would make a fortune for himself []
    • 1900, Orations of American Orators:
      We have thermometers to tell the heat and barometers to tell the air and 'ometers hung in the engine-room to tell the pressure of steam, and 'ometers to gauge and measure almost everything.

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