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Princeton's WordNet

  1. nephoscopenoun

    a measuring instrument that uses a grid for measuring the altitude, direction, and velocity of movement of clouds

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  1. nephoscopenoun

    An instrument for determining the direction of and angular velocity of clouds.

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  1. Nephoscope

    A nephoscope is a 19th-century instrument for measuring the altitude, direction, and velocity of clouds, using transit-time measurement. This is different from a nephometer, which is an instrument used in measuring the amount of cloudiness.

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  1. nephoscope

    A nephoscope is a medical instrument used in the field of urology, specifically in the treatment of kidney stones. It allows a surgeon to observe and operate inside the kidney by manipulating small instruments through a thin, tube-like device which is inserted through a small incision in the skin.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Nephoscopenoun

    an instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity

  2. Etymology: [Gr. ne`fos a cloud + -scope.]

Wikidata

  1. Nephoscope

    Nephoscope is an instrument for measuring the altitude, direction, and velocity of clouds. There are several types of nephoscopes: ⁕the comb nephoscope developed by Besson; ⁕the mirror nephoscope developed by Finemann; ⁕the grid nephoscope, a variation on the comb modified by the Norwegians. Also a type of nephoscope was invented by Mikhail Pomortsev in 1894 in Russia. The nephoscope is used as a grid to measure the clouds.It is also used to find the movements of clouds.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nephoscope in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of nephoscope in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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