barometrical

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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

According to the barometrical measurement of General Roy, the height of the Sugar-loaf mountain is 1852 feet perpendicular above the Gavenny rivulet, near its junction with the Usk. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

The art or process of making barometrical measurements.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

A series of barometrical observations was kept going whether we were on the move or not.

From A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel

This stretches from north to south, and forms an oval, in the centre of which lies the lake, according to barometrical measurement, one thousand four hundred and fifty feet above the level of the sea.

From A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 by Kotzebue, Otto von