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Jul 8, 2010 This week's theme Words made with combining forms This week's words plutocracy bibliolatry epigraph anemometer stenosis A vintage anemometer Illustration: from the book A Treatise on Meteorology by Elias Loomis; 1880. Build your own weather station Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg anemometer PRONUNCIATION: (an-uh-MOM-i-tuhr) MEANING: noun: An instrument for measuring the speed of wind. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek anemo- (wind) + -meter (measure). USAGE: "The highest three-second wind gust measured by the anemometer on the Mile High Swinging Bridge was 77 mph May 9." Above-Average Temperatures, Dryness in May at Grandfather Mountain; Asheville Citizen-Times (North Carolina); Jun 4, 2010. Explore "anemometer" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless. -Lech Walesa, human rights activist, Polish president, Nobel laureate (b. 1943)

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