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

Example Sentences

When used on shore, this contraction of the tube causes the marine barometer to be sometimes a little behind an ordinary land barometer, the tube of which is not contracted.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry

Correspondence between the winds and the marine barometer.

From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Flinders, Matthew

A marine barometer will here be of signal advantage.

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

The tube of the Standard is contracted similarly to that of the marine barometer, but a provision is made for adjusting the mercury in its cistern to the zero point.

From Barometer and Weather Guide by Fitzroy, Robert

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 Chater, Arthur G.