barometer
noun
any instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.
barometrically
-
a word derived from
barometer.
Example Sentences
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Measured barometrically, the fall is sixteen feet perpendicular, but is said sometimes to be upward of twenty feet.
From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer
Colonel Reid gave them much attention, and studied them barometrically: that is, he studied the changes of the wind during the successive periodic depressions.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
They knew that Marcus's spirits were barometrically sensitive to the weather, like those of most persons who look at it through a window.
From Round the Block by John Bell Bouton
It seems that the trades and counter-trades actually bank up, in their passage to the westward, against those mountains, and the true elevation of their eastern slopes can not be barometrically ascertained.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
But the people were still the arbiters of the fire cost, and the companies merely barometrically reflected the condition of the community as to fires.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
