pluviometer

Questions about pluviometer

What does pluviometer mean?

pluviometer means "gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation".

How many syllables are in pluviometer?

pluviometer has 5 syllables and divides as plu-vi-o-me-ter under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for pluviometer?

Close synonyms include rain gauge, rain gage, udometer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pluviometer a common word?

pluviometer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.