MEANING
An instrument used to measure altitude above a chosen reference.
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- radar altimeter
- altimeter setting
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The radar altimeter traced the ground below.
His altimeter setting no longer matched the local pressure.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular altimeter; plural altimeters. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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