| 单词 | water barometer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater barometer water barometer n. †(a) a hydrometer used to measure the concentration of alcohol in spirits (obsolete rare); (b) a barometer in which atmospheric pressure is shown by the height of a column of water (rather than mercury). 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 1715 F. Slare Exper. & Observ. Oriental & other Bezoar-stones 28 I procured very good and pleasant Spirits out of all of them; I took care to bring them to the same Heighth or Standard of Spirits, (by my Water Barometer especially, and other Ways,) which came as near to the Proof of French Brandy as I could bring them. 1725 R. Boyle Philos. Wks. III. Index 689/2 A water-barometer in vacuo. 1866 A. Steinmetz Weathercasts 143 The water barometer at the Royal Society's rooms gave more than 13 inches (13·386) rise and fall for every inch of the mercurial column. 2000 N. Lambert et al. Heinemann Physics for CXC ix. 121/2 A student decided to make a simple barometer. He used water because he did not have access to mercury. What is the minimum length of his water barometer? < as lemmas |
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