marine barometer

American  

noun

1. a barometer for use on shipboard, especially one mounted on gimbals so as to minimize the effects of the motion of the vessel.

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Etymology

Origin of marine barometer

First recorded in 1695–1705

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marine barometer

The Sympiesometer is considered to be more sensitive than the marine barometer, falling sooner, and rising earlier: but this is partly in consequence of the marine barometer tube being contracted, to prevent oscillation or "pumping."

From Barometer and Weather Guide by Robert Fitzroy

The marine barometer is here of considerable importance, as its rise always precedes a south-east wind, and its fall a change from the North-West; it seldom, however, stands lower than twenty-nine and a half inches.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Phillip Parker King

The practice which has long prevailed of mounting the marine barometer in wood is objectionable.

From Barometer and Weather Guide by Robert Fitzroy

A marine barometer will here be of signal advantage.

From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 by Matthew Flinders

One Kew marine barometer by Adie, No. 764.

From The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Arthur G. Chater

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