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/əˈplɔːzəʊˌmiːtə/ · noun
(informal, US) A device of dubious accuracy used to measure the volume of an audience’s applause..
Its four-color animation board has message capabilities, angled lenses for easy daytime viewing, and an applauseometer, which measures the crowd’s Longhorn-cheering levels.
Again, there was scattered applause. I looked into the crowd at Nelson. He told me he was bringing a new invention — an applauseometer — to the debate.
Is the best measurable? If so, by what kind of instrumentation? Certainly not by an “applauseometer,” as used to record the volume of applause on the “Major Bowes Amateur Night Talent” shows during the heyday of radio. I know of no universal empirical devices, but I do believe that the best is discernible to the observant eye.
Use applauseometer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Applauseometer means (informal, US) A device of dubious accuracy used to measure the volume of an audience’s applause..
Common synonyms include clapometer.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Its four-color animation board has message capabilities, angled lenses for easy daytime viewing, and an applauseometer, which measures the crowd’s Longhorn-cheering levels.
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