ometer

See also: -ometer and -o-meter

English

Etymology

From -ometer.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• emoter, meteor, remote