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
Its height, according to barometrical measurement, is seven thousand two hundred feet.
From A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 by Otto von Kotzebue
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 William Dean Howells
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 Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
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 John Howard Cromwell
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