BAROMETRIC PRESSURE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Barometric pressure

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/bˌærəmˈɛtrɪk prˈɛʃər/ Listen

Barometric pressure

noun

Atmospheric pressure as indicated by a barometer.

See images of 'Barometric pressure'

Etymology of 'Barometric pressure'

Click any word on the page to get its definition

Text size: A A

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Barometric pressure" Quotes from Famous Books

... the choice of standing by the side of their sledges and eating their lunch, or setting the tent and taking shelter. They generally chose the latter alternative, making up for it by going an hour longer in the afternoon. Besides the astronomical observations, the barometric pressure, temperature, force and direction of the wind, and amount of cloud were noted three times daily; every evening a hypsometer reading ...

— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen

Read full book for free!

... after midsummer the temperature falls, the vast dry tract of the Asiatic continent becomes colder, the barometric pressure over the land increases, and the winds begin to blow from the northeast, which are called the northeast monsoon, and cause a second rainy season from October to December. These winds, or monsoons, enable ...

— Modern India • William Eleroy Curtis

Read full book for free!

... dropped so swiftly that even the Shed seemed to shrivel like a pricked balloon. The horizon retreated as if a carpet were hastily unrolled by magic. The barometric pressure needles turned. ...

— Space Tug • Murray Leinster

Read full book for free!

... softly as he turned the bolt that opened the door in the "gun" end of the stripped-nuclei accelerator. The seals broke with a soft hiss. Evidently, the barometric pressure outside the two-mile-long underground tube had changed slightly during the time ...

— Psichopath • Gordon Randall Garrett

Read full book for free!