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barometer
Alternative clues for the word barometer
- Warning not entirely accepted in trade: a sign of things to come?
- Instrument which measures pressure
- Weather forecaster that can take the pressure?
- Forecaster's instrument
- Italian city takes on a forecaster
- Cockney in smashing deal? It shows the pressure one's under
- Indicator of change, sign mostly displayed in centre of trade
- Falling __ (picnicker's woe)
- Weather instrument
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Usage examples of barometer.
According to the hypsometer and our aneroid barometer we were at a height of 11,075 feet -- this was in lat.
On the wall to my right were the instruments for measuring atmospheric pressure - a barograph and two mercury barometers.
It was a cold, grey day with low cloud, but the wind had veered and although he had seen neither barometer nor barograph he guessed the depression was passing north.
Overhead hung an ordinary tell-tale compass, and compactly placed on other parts of the wall were barometers, thermometers, barographs, and, in fact, practically every instrument that the most exacting of aeronauts or Space-explorers could have asked for.
When the barometer begins to fall, it is a sure warning of an approaching north-westerly wind, which is always accompanied by precipitation, and increases in force until the fall of the barometer ceases.
When this occurs, there follows either a short pause, or else the wind suddenly shifts to the south-west, and blows from that quarter with increasing violence, while the barometer rises rapidly.
The hypsometer and barometer, however, were not to be deceived, and both fell in precisely the same degree as they had risen before.
Outside the same state of things continues, and the barometer is going down.
Although I look at it at least every half-hour, the barometer will not go up.
A slight rise of both barometer and thermometer tells us that at last we are on the eve of the change we have been longing for.
This, together with the heavy swell and the pronounced fall of the barometer, showed that something might be expected.
The meteorological outfit on the Fram consisted of the following instruments and apparatus Three mercury barometers, namely: One normal barometer by Fuess, No.
The Adie standard barometer is so arranged that it is only necessary to read the summit of the mercury.
On the other hand, the normal barometer is not suited to daily observations, especially in the Polar regions, and the double reading entails greater liability of error.
That the Adie barometer is rather less sensitive than the other is of small importance, as the variations of atmospheric pressure at Framheim were not very great.