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Unit of atmospheric pressure
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millibar
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar; "atmospheric pressure at sea level is 1013 millibars"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100 pascal, used primarily to report atmospheric pressure.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Consequently, for every 10 millibars more they fly about 80 metres higher. ▪ Earth has only 0. 3 millibars of carbon dioxide and Mars an average of about 6 millibars. ▪ I have heard that swallows follow their insect prey and ...
Usage examples of millibar.
Both trawlers had reported a big swell still running from the north, but the wind backing westerly and the barometric pressure 2 to 3 millibars lower than the weather map indicated in that area.
Her first contact with him, reporting a drop of 2 millibars in the barometric pressure in that locality, was made at 17.
The atmosphere analyzer showed the presence of no poisonous gases, and the pressure came to eleven hundred millibars, but he was supposed to go out helmeted, so he connected the oxygen hose to his own tank.
Greenland as having established itself, a massive High now extending from just west of Iceland to the Labrador coast with pressures of 1040 millibars or more at the centre.
Barometric pressure 963, still falling - a drop of 16 millibars in 1 hour.
Still, he had to admit that the Clarke Project had driven the air pressure up to twenty millibars at Mars City.
Jamaica gained speed, and the barometric pressure dropped to well below 1000 millibars, an ominously low reading considering that the average was nearer 1013.
Odin, a happy television voice announced, had dropped 20 millibars in the past two hours.
Weather Channel went on chattering in civilised tones about the downward march of millibars, those useful measurements of lowering air pressure and forthcoming disaster.
Odin by that moment had dropped another couple of frightening millibars and had moved one minute north-west.
Robin with extra instruments which will register air pressure in millibars and record it on tape from second to second, and wind-speed gauges too.
Pressure in the eye had last been measured at 930 millibars, having dropped from 967 overnight.
When Kris wound the needle again to zero, the millibars had dropped to 990, and he gazed at this result as if mesmerised.
A wisp of atmosphere, a few millibars of pressure at the surface, nitrogen with some methane and argon, scarcely hazed the limb.
It had been an outlet for his frustration, filled with the excitement he felt for each new weather pattern, the sense of discovery as the first pencilled circle - a fall in pressure of a single millibar perhaps reported by a ship out in the Atlantic - indicated the birth of a new storm centre.