On May 20, 6:55 am, Nyal Williams wrote:
At 02:32 20 May 2008, sisu1a wrote:



On May 19, 5:25 pm, Tony Verhulst wrote:
Nyal Williams wrote:
I'll bet that definition and that instrument are both older than
ours
--
nad more widespread, probably.

Ralph's point, IMHO, is that you don't go to a general dictionary to
get
specialized information.

Tony V.http://home.comcast.net/~verhulst/SOARING

Furthermore, you may even want to look elsewhere for general
information. Websters is full of definitions like this:

Hill - "a raised elevation of land, smaller than a mountain"

Mountain - "a raised elevation of land, larger than a hill"

no joke.

Paul Hanson

It defines gorse as furze and it defines furze as gorse with no further
explanations in either place.

My point was that the definition of a variometer is not the property of
the soaring community. ;-)

Correct! It was the name of a short wave radio part (variable
inductance coil = variometer since around 1895) long before it was the
name for our sensitive VSI's. http://www.qsl.net/in3otd/variodes.html

Paul