barometrical
Example Sentences
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The wind was then blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in barometrical language is ranked “No. 2: light breeze.”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Mackesy.—Tables of barometrical heights to 20,000 feet, specially adapted for the use of officers on service, civil engineers and travellers.
From A System of Easy Lettering by Cromwell, John Howard
In a society so barometrical as ours, even in a city where it was the least barometrical, the obstacles to the acceptance of Maxwell were mainly subjective.
From The Story of a Play A Novel by Howells, William Dean
Engelhardt and Parrot attempted to determine the exact amount of difference by a series of levellings and barometrical measurements across the isthmus at two different places near the foot of Mount Caucasus.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
The barometrical observations made during this tour were reduced by comparison with those of the Royal Engineer's Observatory at Auckland, the tables used in which were obligingly put at my disposal by Colonel Mould, R.E.
