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The general name for instruments designed to measure either total [[wind speed]] or  the speed of one or more [[linear]] components of the [[wind vector]].<br/> These instruments may be classified according to the [[transducer]] employed; those commonly  used in meteorology include the [[cup]], [[propeller]], [[Pitot-tube]], [[hot-wire]] or [[hot-film]], and [[sonic  anemometers]].<br/>''See also'' [[current meter]], [[wind vane]].<br/>  Middleton, W. E. K., and A. F. Spilhaus 1953.  Meteorological Instruments. 3d ed., rev., . Univ. of Toronto  Press, . 135&ndash;165.
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