Frombaro- +-meter. Coined in 1665 byRobert Boyle as a name for the instrument invented byTorricelli some 20 years earlier; soon thereafter borrowed from English into various languages.
1978, Jan Romein,The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page303:
Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers andbarometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
1916 Jun,Michigan Law Review[1], volume14, number 8,pp. 661-665:
"An election is not necessarily an accuratebarometer of public opinion. There are other ways in which it makes itself felt, through the press, the forum, discussion, and through every other type of communication."
2006, Anthony Marcus,Where Have All the Homeless Gone?: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis, Berghahn Books,→ISBN,page152:
The weakest members of society become socialbarometers or canaries in a coal mine.
2022 May 4, Tommy Stubbington, Martin Arnold, “ECB policy tightening sends eurozone borrowing costs soaring”, inFinancial Times[2]:
Italy’s 10-year yield spread versus Germany, considered abarometer of political and economic risks in the euro area, climbed as high as 1.9 percentage points on Tuesday, its widest since the early stages of the pandemic when investors dumped riskier eurozone government debt.
2023 August 10, “Owners of ‘LGBT’ Swatch watches could be jailed for three years in Malaysia”, inThe Guardian[3]:
Elections in six Malaysian states on Saturday will serve as abarometer of public sentiment for Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim’s unity government against a powerful opposition consisting of Malay-Muslim political parties.
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“barometer”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
