barometer

CEFRC1

/bəˈɹɒm.ɪ.tə(ɹ)/

noun

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noun
An instrument that measures air pressure and helps predict weather.
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noun
Extra detail
Anything used as a gauge or indicator.

Examples

Blood pressure is important as a barometer of health.
The barometer is falling. It is going to rain.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 3
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

[bəˈɹɑ.mə.ɾɚ]

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noun

Extra meaning

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

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In context

"An election is not necessarily an accurate barometer of public opinion. There are other ways in which it makes itself felt, through the press, the forum, discussion, and through every other type of communication."
The weakest members of society become social barometers or canaries in a coal mine.
Elections in six Malaysian states on Saturday will serve as a barometer of public sentiment for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government against a powerful opposition consisting of Malay-Muslim political parties.

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Citations

The word in print, with each source given in full.

"An election is not necessarily an accurate barometer of public opinion. There are other ways in which it makes itself felt, through the press, the forum, discussion, and through every other type of communication."
1916 Jun, Michigan Law Review, volume 14, number 8, pp. 661-665
Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303
The weakest members of society become social barometers or canaries in a coal mine.
2006, Anthony Marcus, Where Have All the Homeless Gone?: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 152
Italy’s 10-year yield spread versus Germany, considered a barometer of political and economic risks in the euro area, climbed as high as 1.9 percentage points on Tuesday, its widest since the early stages of the pandemic when investors dumped riskier eurozone government debt.
2022 May 4, Tommy Stubbington, Martin Arnold, “ECB policy tightening sends eurozone borrowing costs soaring”, in Financial Times
Elections in six Malaysian states on Saturday will serve as a barometer of public sentiment for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government against a powerful opposition consisting of Malay-Muslim political parties.
2023 August 10, “Owners of ‘LGBT’ Swatch watches could be jailed for three years in Malaysia”, in The Guardian

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Origin

noun

From baro- + -meter. Coined in 1665 by Robert Boyle as a name for the instrument invented by Torricelli some 20 years earlier; soon thereafter borrowed from English into various languages.

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Meteorologists use a blank— to measure changes in atmospheric pressure before a storm.

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noun

Meteorologists use a blank to measure changes in atmospheric pressure before a storm.