barometer

See also: Barometer and barométer

English

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barometer

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Etymology

From baro- +‎ -meter. Coined in 1665 by Robert Boyle as a name for the instrument invented by Torricelli some 20 years earlier; soon thereafter borrowed from English into various languages.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəˈɹɒm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bəˈɹɑ.mə.tɚ/, [bəˈɹɑ.mə.ɾɚ]

  • Audio (US):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /bəˈɹɔm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/, [bəˈɹɔm.ɪ.ɾə(ɹ)]
• Rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

barometer (plural barometers)

2. An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
   • 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:

     Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.

3. (figurative, by extension) Anything used as a gauge or indicator.
   • 1916 Jun, Michigan Law Review‎, volume 14, number 8, pp. 661-665:

     "An election is not necessarily an accurate barometer of public opinion. There are other ways in which it makes itself felt, through the press, the forum, discussion, and through every other type of communication."

   • 2006, Anthony Marcus, Where Have All the Homeless Gone?: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 152:

     The weakest members of society become social barometers or canaries in a coal mine.

   • 2022 May 4, Tommy Stubbington, Martin Arnold, “ECB policy tightening sends eurozone borrowing costs soaring”, in Financial Times‎:

     Italy’s 10-year yield spread versus Germany, considered a barometer of political and economic risks in the euro area, climbed as high as 1.9 percentage points on Tuesday, its widest since the early stages of the pandemic when investors dumped riskier eurozone government debt.

   • 2023 August 10, “Owners of ‘LGBT’ Swatch watches could be jailed for three years in Malaysia”, in The Guardian‎:

     Elections in six Malaysian states on Saturday will serve as a barometer of public sentiment for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government against a powerful opposition consisting of Malay-Muslim political parties.

Derived terms

• aneroid barometer
• Eurobarometer
• Fitzroy barometer
• Fortin barometer
• geobarometer
• geothermobarometer
• hydrobarometer
• mercury barometer
• telebarometer
• thermobarometer
• Torricellian barometer
• water barometer
• wheel barometer

Related terms

• bathometer

Translations

an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure

Afrikaans: barometer Albanian: barometri Arabic: بَارُومِتْر m (barumitr) Armenian: ծանրաչափ (hy) (canračʻapʻ), բարոմետր (hy) (barometr) Asturian: barómetru m Azerbaijani: barometr (az) Basque: barometro Belarusian: баро́метр m (barómjetr) Bulgarian: барометър m (barometǎr) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: baròmetre (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 氣壓表 / 气压表 (zh) (qìyābiǎo), 氣壓計 / 气压计 (zh) (qìyājì) Czech: tlakoměr m, barometr (cs) m Danish: barometer (da) n Dutch: barometer (nl) m, drukmeter (nl) m Esperanto: barometro (eo), baroskopo, aerpremomezurilo Estonian: baromeeter (et) Finnish: ilmanpainemittari, barometri (fi) French: baromètre (fr) m Galician: barómetro (gl) m Georgian: ბარომეტრი (baromeṭri) German: Barometer (de) n Greek: βαρόμετρο (el) n (varómetro) Hebrew: ברומטר (he) m (barometér) Hindi: बैरोमीटर m (bairomīṭar) Hungarian: barométer (hu), légnyomásmérő (hu) Icelandic: loftvog (is) m Ido: barometro (io), baroskopo (io) Indonesian: barometer (id) Ingrian: barometra Irish: baraiméadar m Italian: barometro (it) m Japanese: 気圧計 (ja) (きあつけい, kiatsukei) Kannada: ವಾಯುಭಾರ ಮಾಪಕ (vāyubhāra māpaka) Khmer: បារ៉ូម៉ែត (baaroumaet) Korean: 기압계 (ko) (giapgye) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latvian: barometrs m Lithuanian: barometras (lt) Macedonian: бароме́тар m (barométar) Malay: jangka tekanan, barometer Norwegian: Bokmål: barometer (no) n Nynorsk: barometer n Persian: فشارسنج (fa) (fešâr-sanj) Polish: barometr (pl) m Portuguese: Brazilian: barômetro (pt) m European: barómetro m Romanian: barometru (ro) m Russian: баро́метр (ru) m (barómetr) Scottish Gaelic: meidh-àile f, glainne-shìde f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: барометар m Roman: barometar (sh) m Slovak: barometer (sk) m Slovene: barometer m Spanish: barómetro (es) m Swedish: barometer (sv) c Tagalog: barometro Tamil: காற்றழுத்தமானி (kāṟṟaḻuttamāṉi) Thai: บารอมิเตอร์ (th) (baa-ror-mí-dtêr) Turkish: barometre (tr), basınçölçer (tr) Ukrainian: баро́метр (uk) m (barómetr) Vietnamese: áp kế (vi) Welsh: baromedr m, hinfynag f West Frisian: waarglês Zulu: izwamoya class 5/6

anything used as a gauge or indicator

Finnish: barometri (fi) Georgian: ბარომეტრი (baromeṭri) Hungarian: barométer (hu) Indonesian: barometer (id) Polish: barometr (pl) m, wskaźnik (pl) m Portuguese: Brazilian: barômetro (pt) m European: barómetro m Swedish: barometer (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

Albanian: (please verify) barometër (sq)

Anagrams

• barometre

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

barometer

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”) +‎ -meter.

Noun

barometer n (definite singular barometeret or barometret, indefinite plural barometre, definite plural barometrene)

1. a barometer

References

• “barometer” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From English barometer, perhaps through French baromètre. By surface analysis, baro- +‎ meter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbaː.roːˈmeː.tər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ba‧ro‧me‧ter

Noun

barometer m (plural barometers, diminutive barometertje n)

1. (meteorology) barometer [from late 17th c.]

Descendants

• Afrikaans: barometer
• → Papiamentu: barometer

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

barometer

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch barometer, from English barometer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ro.ˈme.tər/
• Rhymes: -tər
• Hyphenation: ba‧ro‧me‧têr

Noun

barometêr

1. barometer
   1. an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure
   2. (figuratively) anything used as a gauge or indicator

Derived terms

• barometer air raksa
• barometer aneroid
• barometer bahari
• barometer baku mutlak
• barometer Fortin
• barometer gunung
• barometer Kew
• barometer perekam

Further reading

• “barometer” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

barometer

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”) +‎ -meter.

Noun

barometer n (definite singular barometeret or barometret, indefinite plural barometer or barometre, definite plural barometra or barometrene)

1. a barometer

References

• “barometer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

barometer

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”) +‎ -meter.

Noun

barometer n (definite singular barometeret, indefinite plural barometer, definite plural barometera)

1. a barometer

References

• “barometer” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbarɔmecer]

Noun

barometer m inan (genitive singular barometra, nominative plural barometre, genitive plural barometrov, declension pattern of stroj)

1. barometer

References

• “barometer”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

barometer

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

barometer c

1. (meteorology) a barometer
2. (figuratively, by extension) a barometer (something used as a gauge or indicator)

   väljarbarometer

   election poll ("voter barometer")

Declension

Declension of barometer

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	barometer	barometers
	definite	barometern	barometerns
plural	indefinite	barometrar	barometrars
	definite	barometrarna	barometrarnas

Derived terms

• aneroidbarometer
• barometerfall
• barometerstånd
• barometertryck
• cykelbarometer
• dosbarometer
• formbarometer
• konjunkturbarometer
• valbarometer
• väljarbarometer

Related terms

• barometrisk

References

• barometer in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• barometer in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• barometer in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)