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Definition of Nilometer

Nilometer
Nilometer Ni*lom"e*ter, n. [Gr. ?; ? the Nile + ? measure: cf. F. nilom[`e]tre.] An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.

Meaning of Nilometer from wikipedia

- A nilometer was a structure for measuring the Nile River's clarity and water level during the annual flood season. There were three main types of nilometers...
- A nilometer was a structure for measuring the Nile River's clarity and the water level during the annual flood season. There are two nilometers at Elephantine...
- reign of caliph Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik of the Umayyad dynasty, a nilometer was built on the southern tip of the island opposite the mouth of the...
- levels of flow required from the annual flood. At Elephantine the official nilometer, a measuring device, was carefully monitored to predict the level of the...
- century. In 861, on the orders of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil, a Nilometer was built on Roda Island near Fustat. Although it was repaired and given...
- inundation festivals, mud figures of Osiris were planted with barley. Nilometer Egyptian Public Works Aswan Dam#Irrigation scheme Water supply and sanitation...
- El Manial (Egyptian Arabic: المنيل  pronounced [elˈmænjæl], "the nilometer") is a district of Cairo, located on Rhoda Island in the Nile. The El Manial...
- in the river were uncovered again during droughts in 2018 and in 2022. Nilometer Damonoske, Camila (24 August 2018). "Drought In Central Europe Reveals...
- الفرغاني), who was an Orthodox Christian, the same engineer who designed the Nilometer. The historian al-Maqrizi lists the mosque's construction start date as...
- al-sawdāʾ), adopted in the Abbasid period and fixed by the measure used in the Nilometer on Rawda Island at 54.04 cm (21+1⁄4 in). It is also known as the common...