[mod. f. AERO- + Gr. -μέτρία measuring: see -METRY.] The measuring of the air; the science of pneumatics.
1731. Bailey, vol. II., [the Latin form] Aerometria.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Aerometry includes the laws of the motion, gravitation, pression, elasticity, rarefaction, condensation, etc. of the atmospherical fluid.
1777. Phil. Trans., LXVII. 413. The application of the laws of aërometry.
1819. Pantologia, I. Aerometry, a scientific term which has now given way to the equivalent term pneumatics.