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  1. Greek hypsos `height'. instrument for testing
  2. the accuracy of a thermometer at the boiling
  3. point of water. It was originally used for
  4. determining altitude by comparing changes in
  5. the boiling point with changes in atmospheric
  6. pressure.
  7.