Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A meteorological instrument contrived by Saussure for estimating or measuring degrees of blueness, as in the sky.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.
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- noun An
instrument for measuring theintensity ofblue colour.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He also developed numerous other instruments, including the manometer, cyanometer, diaphonometer, anemometer and mountain eudiometer, the first electrometer (1766), a device for measuring electric potential by means of attraction or repulsion of charged bodies, and the first hygrometer, utilizing a human hair to measure humidity (1783).
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I took a single paint swatch, cut it in half, and taped the symmetrical halves on a mirror to make a device that we can call a "cyanometer."
Archive 2008-04-01 James Gurney 2008
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The sky color shifts in value from zenith to horizon, too, as we can see when the cyanometer is arrayed vertically.
Archive 2008-04-01 James Gurney 2008
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He would study geology in the field, and took Saussure in his trunk he would note meteorology: he made a cyanometer -- a scale of blue to measure the depth of tone, the colour whether of Rhine-water or of Alpine skies.
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Its intensity at the zenith appeared to correspond to 41° of the cyanometer.
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This intensity, measured with the cyanometer of Saussure, was found from November to January generally 18, never above 20 degrees.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Its intensity at the zenith appeared to correspond to 41 degrees of the cyanometer.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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It corresponded only to 12 degrees of the cyanometer.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Thermometer 21; hygrometer 39.3; cyanometer 16 degrees.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Saussure, Horace Bénédict de, _Essai sur Hygrométrie_, inventor of the cyanometer, _vi.
The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
jmjarmstrong commented on the word cyanometer
JM is training to be a cyanometer operator to more fully understand the sky.
February 1, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word cyanometer
"Humboldt started using his instruments during the voyage. The faulty knowledge and ignorance about the New World exhilarated him. When the maps of the ship's pilot disagreed with one another, he used his instruments to clarify their position. Humboldt made his outbound voyage a feast of data collecting. Being well-equipped to examine almost anything that fell under his inquisitive gaze, he regularly measured the temperature of the seawater and the intensity of the magnetic force. He took frequent astronomical readings and used his cyanometer, an instrument designed to measure blueness, to observe the color of seawater."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 217
December 28, 2016