Torricelli

American  

[tawr-i-chel-ee, tawr-ree-chel-lee] / ˌtɔr ɪˈtʃɛl i, ˌtɔr riˈtʃɛl li /

noun

1. Evangelista 1608–47, Italian physicist.

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Torricelli British  

/ ˌtɒrɪˈtʃɛlɪ /

noun

1. Evangelista (evandʒeˈlista). 1608–47, Italian physicist and mathematician, who discovered the principle of the barometer

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Torricelli Scientific  

/ tō′rə-chĕl′ē /

1. Italian mathematician and physicist noted for discovering that the atmosphere exerts pressure. He demonstrated that this pressure affected the level of mercury in a tube, thereby inventing the mercury barometer (1643).

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Other Word Forms

• Torricellian
  adjective

Example Sentences

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Torricelli

“I understand personal loyalty and I understand the depths of friendship, but somebody needs to take a stand here,” former New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli told the New York Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

It is not known whether Torricelli was home at the time of the incident.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2020

In a recent telephone interview, Torricelli said he believed that Trump actually has deeper political roots in New Jersey than in New York, his native state.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2020

“The air came out of the room,” said former New Jersey senator Robert Torricelli, a Democrat who had invited Trump to testify and was sitting next to him.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2016

For the young Napoleon, who was exceptionally good at mathematics, the problems which had defeated the great Torricelli were by the 1780s mere school exercises—the school, of course, being the École Militaire.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton