pluviometer

1. 1.

   gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation

   Synonymsrain gaugerain gageudometer

   Broadergauge

Other forms of pluviometer

plural

pluviometers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

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: plu-vi-o-me-ter. The stress falls on "o".

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.