hypsometer

/hip-som-i-ter/US // hɪpˈsɒm ɪ tər //UK // (hɪpˈsɒmɪtə) //

湿度计,湿度仪,测湿仪,湿润度计

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Mertz boiled the hypsometer when necessary to ascertain our elevation above sea-level.
According to the hypsometer and our aneroid barometer we were at a height of 11,075 feet -- this was in lat.
The hypsometer is only an instrument for determining the boiling-point, which gives one the height above the sea.
The hypsometer showed 11,070 feet above the sea; we had therefore reached a greater altitude than the Butcher's.
The readings of the hypsometer gave practically the same result day after day; the ascent we were looking for failed to appear.