barometer
noun
any instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.
barometrically
-
a word derived from
barometer.
Example Sentences
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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
The chancelleries published bulletins announcing the return of fair weather, barometrically as it were.
From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Gilbert Cannan
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
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
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
