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
The northern portion of the continent extends into the little known polar region of prevailingly low barometrical pressure, where midsummer and midwinter calms normally prevail.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
Assuming that the barometrical height of its source is 1,582 feet, it has a mean descent of over six inches per mile.
From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens
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 Thomasina Ross
Nevertheless an unusual barometrical depression had brought in its train several days of disagreeable, stormy weather.
From Banzai! by Parabellum by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff
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