Anemometer Sentence Examples

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  • Lind's anemometer, which consists simply of a U tube containing liquid with one end bent into a horizontal direction to face the wind, is perhaps the original form from which the tube class of instrument has sprung.

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  • The other forms of velocity anemometer may be described as belonging to the windmill type.

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  • The great advantage of the tube anemometer lies in the fact that the exposed part can be mounted on a high pole, and requires no oiling or attention for years; and the registering part can be placed in any convenient position, no matter how far from the external part.

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  • The Robinson anemometer, invented (1846) by Dr Thomas Romney Robinson, of Armagh Observatory, is the best-known and most generally used instrument, and belongs to the first of these.

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  • Most weather stations measure wind speed using a spinning cup anemometer, which rotates depending on the wind.

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  • Mean velocity measurements were taken by using a precision constant temperature linearized hot-wire anemometer designed for low speed water flows.

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  • Anemometer observations show that pressures of 30 lb per sq.

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  • For more accurate information you may also choose to install an anemometer mast to gage wind speed data over a given period.

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  • The two great merits of this anemometer are its simplicity and the absence of a wind vane; on the other hand it is not well adapted to leaving a record on paper of the actual velocity at any definite instant, and hence it leaves a short but violent gust unrecorded.

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  • In the tube anemometer also it is really the pressure that is measured, although the scale is usually graduated as a velocity scale.

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  • Probably a sphere would prove most useful for a pressure anemometer, since owing to its symmetrical shape it would not require a weathercock.

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  • Approximately II% should be added to the velocity recorded by a tube anemometer for each 1000 ft.

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  • The pressure is measured by a " water-gauge " and the velocity of flow by an " anemometer."

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  • As to anemometer pressures, it should be observed that the recorded pressure is made up of a positive front and negative (vacuum) back pressure, but in structures the latter must be absent or only partially developed.

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  • We measured the wind speed using an anemometer - see how we made our own here.

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  • Station includes anemometer with 40 ' (12 m) cable and external temperature sensor with 25 ' (7.5 m) cable.

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  • More rapid changes in wind speed may be measured using a ` hot wire anemometer ' .

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  • Integrated sensor suite includes rain collector, temperature and humidity sensors, anemometer, and 40 ' (12 m) anemometer cable.

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  • The sensor unit is intended for use as a handheld anemometer or for temporary installation.

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  • In the Robinson anemometer the axis of rotation is vertical, but with this subdivision the axis of rotation must be parallel to the direction of the wind and therefore horizontal.

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  • Anemometers may be divided into two classes, (1) those that measure the velocity, (2) those that measure the pressure of the wind, but inasmuch as there is a close connexion between the pressure and the velocity, a suitable anemometer of either class will give information about both these quantities.

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