anemometer
Noun
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An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge.
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An anemometer is installed on the tip of the building's mast; the anemometer sits at convert above sea level.
An industrial version of the fine-wire anemometer is the thermal flow meter, which follows the same concept but uses two pins or stings to monitor the variation in temperature.
Icing alters the aerodynamics of an anemometer and may entirely block it from operating.
In 1450, the Italian art architect Leon Battista Alberti invented the first mechanical anemometer; in 1664 it was re-invented by Robert Hooke (who is often mistakenly considered the inventor of the first anemometer).
Industrial applications often contain dirt that will damage the classic hot-wire anemometer.
Instead, the ratio of the speed of the wind and that of the cups, the anemometer factor, depends on the dimensions of the cups and arms, and may have a value between two and a little over three.