Usually means: Pressure gauge using bent tube.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word bourdon:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. bourdon: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bourdon, bourdon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bourdon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bourdon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bourdon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bourdon, bourdon: Wordnik
  7. Bourdon, bourdon: Wiktionary
  8. bourdon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bourdon: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Bourdon, bourdon: Dictionary.com
  11. Bourdon (bell), Bourdon (disambiguation), Bourdon (organ pipe), Bourdon (surname), Bourdon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Bourdon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. bourdon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. bourdon: Rhymezone
  15. bourdon: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  16. Bourdon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bourdon: FreeDictionary.org
  18. bourdon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. bourdon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bourdon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bourdon: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bourdon (disambiguation), bourdon: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bourdon: HYPP Zoology

(Note: See bourdons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Bourdon)

noun:  (music, archaic) The burden or bass of a melody.
noun:  The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
noun:  The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
noun:  The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
noun:  A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
noun:  A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
noun:  (historical) A pilgrim's staff.
noun:  (music) A flute stop on an organ of 8', 16' or 32', generally characterized by a low, dark tone.
noun:  A surname from French.

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