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 J. T. Barber
I would suggest large sized charts showing landmarks, ship's position, and barometrical readings.
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch
I began an hourly set of barometrical readings and as soon as Clem came back he helped me to run them day and night for eight consecutive days.
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 Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
By a similar calculation upon the volume of air after combustion, we find its barometrical pressure 27.77083 - 0.51593 = 27.25490.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier
