aneroid

From French anéroïde, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + νηρός (nērós, “wet, damp”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈænəɹɔɪd/

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aneroid (not comparable)

1. Not using or containing fluid

   An evacuated bellows and mechanical linkage operates an aneroid barometer.

aneroid (plural aneroids)

1. An aneroid barometer.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     I may mention that our aneroid shows us that in the continual incline which we have ascended since we abandoned our canoes we have risen to no less than three thousand feet above sea-level.

2. An aneroid calorimeter.

• arenoid

Borrowed from French anéroïde. By surface analysis, an- +‎ aero- +‎ -oid. First attested in 1850.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /a.nɛˈrɔ.it/

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• Rhymes: -ɔit
• Syllabification: a‧ne‧ro‧id

aneroid m inan

1. (meteorology) aneroid, aneroid barometer

• aneroid in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• aneroid in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “aneroid”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 36
• aneroid in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Borrowed from French anéroïde.

aneroid m or n (feminine singular aneroidă, masculine plural aneroizi, feminine and neuter plural aneroide)

1. aneroid

• IPA^(key): /anerǒiːd/
• Hyphenation: a‧ne‧ro‧id

aneròīd m inan (Cyrillic spelling анеро̀ӣд)

1. aneroid barometer

• “aneroid”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025