BAROMETER
\bəɹˈɒmɪtə], \bəɹˈɒmɪtə], \b_ə_ɹ_ˈɒ_m_ɪ_t_ə]\
Definitions of BAROMETER
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.
By Oddity Software
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An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.
By Noah Webster.
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An instrument for measuring the weight or pressure of the atmosphere; used for showing or foretelling changes of weather, or to find heights, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An instrument for measuring the pressure of the atmosphere, either the variations of pressure in one locality determined by cyclonic and anti-cyclonic disturbances, or the diminution of pressure at elevations, thereby determining the height above sea-level. The older form is a column of mercury in a tube sealed at its upper end, the pressure of the air being measured by the height of the column of mercury.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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BAROMETRIC.
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BAROMETRICALLY.
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Barometrical.
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An instrument for indicating atmospheric pressure; used for foretelling the weather, etc.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An instrument for measuring the pressure of the atmosphere, and so indicating changes of weather, as well as determining altitudes.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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An instrument that indicates changes in the weather, and used to ascertain the heights of mountains from the pressure of the atmosphere.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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An instrument which measures the weight of the air. A certain degree of density in this medium is necessary for health. When we ascend high mountains, great inconvenience is experienced, owing to the diminished density. Changes of this character are indicated by the Barometer or weather-glass.
By Robley Dunglison
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Instrument indicating the atmospheric pressure.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A term applied to any instrument for ascertaining the pressure of the atmosphere, i. e., the weight with which it presses upon the earth's surface at any given point. There are two chief sorts of b's. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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