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 Springer, John S.
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 Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)
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 Butler, Thomas Belden
The number of localities, the level of which he has determined barometrically, with the view of fixing the ancient levels of all these vanished glaciers, is almost incredible.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
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 Bouton, John Bell
