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baroscope

American

[bar-uh-skohp] / ˈbær əˌskoʊp /

noun

an instrument showing roughly the variations in atmospheric pressure.

baroscope British

/ ˈbærəˌskəʊp, ˌbærəˈskɒpɪk /

noun

any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere

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Other Word Forms

baroscopic adjective
baroscopical adjective

Etymology

Origin of baroscope

First recorded in 1655–65; baro- + -scope

Example Sentences

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Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.

From Project Gutenberg

Baroscope, bar′ō-skōp, n. an instrument for indicating changes in the density of the air.

From Project Gutenberg

Inches in Altitude, is kept suspended after the manner of the Torricellian Experiment, a Barometer or Baroscope, first made publick by that Noble Searcher of Nature, Mr. Boyle, and imployed by Him and others, to detect all the minut variations in the Pressure and weight of the Air.

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Hearing afterwards of an Earthquake observed by others; I looked on my Notes concerning my Thermoscope and Baroscope, to see if any alteration considerable had then happened.

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Upon this Occasion, it will not be unseasonable to give some General accounts of what I have in my Thermoscope and Baroscope observed.

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