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

I examined, with great satisfaction, your barometrical estimate of the heights of our mountains; and with the more, as they corroborated conjectures on this subject which I had made before.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Some barometrical observations made by M. C. Gay, during a journey in Peru, in the years 1839-40, with one of Bunten's barometers, deviate very considerably from all those above mentioned.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina

Took some barometrical observations, and at half-past six continued our upward way.

From The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Keppel, Henry

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