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Noun Concept
Categories: Aircraft instruments, Gliding technology, Navigational flight instruments, Avionics, Measuring instruments
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variometer
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A measuring instrument for measuring variations in a magnetic field WordNet 3.0
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A measuring instrument for measuring variations in a magnetic field WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In aviation, a variometer – also known as a rate of climb and descent indicator, rate-of-climb indicator, vertical speed indicator, or vertical velocity indicator – is one of the flight instruments in an aircraft used to inform the pilot of the rate of descent or climb. Wikipedia
An aircraft flight instrument sometimes shortened to "vario" Wikipedia Disambiguation
A rate-of-climb indicator. Wiktionary
IS A
measuring instrument
flight monitoring device
DIFFERENT FROM
gravity variometer
DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR
Alexander Lippisch
Robert Kronfeld
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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variometer
Wikipedia
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variometer
Wikidata
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variometer
Wiktionary
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variometer
Wikipedia Redirections
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instantaneous vertical speed indicator, IVSI, rate-of-climb indicator, rate of climb and descent indicator, rate of climb indicator, Rate of descent indicator, RCDI, total energy variometer, Variograph, Vertical-rate indicator, vertical speed indicator, Vertical velocity indicator, VSI/TRA
Wikidata Alias
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rate-of-climb indicator, rate of climb and descent indicator, RCDI, vertical speed indicator, vertical velocity indicator, VSI, VVI

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