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
When the barometrical observations were worked out we found we had now descended 262 feet from our starting-point.
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
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
According to custom, Mr Sudberry went forward to the barometrical banjo, intending to tap it—not that he expected correct information now.
From Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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