单词 | baroscope |
释义 | baroscopen.ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > meteorological instruments > [noun] > barometer > types of baroscope1665 wheel-barometer1666 water barometer1715 sympiesometer1817 barometrograph1847 aneroid1849 barograph1865 Fortin1875 telebarograph1884 telebarometer1884 telehydrobarometer1884 aneroidograph1890 statoscope1890 barocyclonometer1906 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 31 A Baroscope, or an Instrument to shew all the Minute Variations in the Pressure of the Air. 1675 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 10 490 That useful instrument the Baroscope, telling the changes of the weather beforehand. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Barometer The Baroscope..in strictness, being a Machine that barely shews an Alteration in the Weight of the atmosphere... To measure how much that Difference is..is the Business of the Barometer. 2. An instrument designed, when placed under the air-pump, to show that bodies in air lose as much weight as that of the air they displace. ΚΠ 1881 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1665 |
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