BAROSCOPE
\bˈaɹəskˌə͡ʊp], \bˈaɹəskˌəʊp], \b_ˈa_ɹ_ə_s_k_ˌəʊ_p]\
Definitions of BAROSCOPE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
Sort: Oldest first
-
Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.
By Oddity Software
-
Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.
By Noah Webster.
-
bar'[=o]-sk[=o]p, n. an instrument for indicating changes in the density of the air. [Gr. baros, weight, skopein, to see.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
-
A barometer.
-
An instrument for demonstrating the upward pressure of liquid and gaseous media upon solid bodies suspended in them. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
-
[Gr. I behold.] An instrument for showing that bodies are supported by the buoyancy of air, in the same manner as they are by that of water, though in a much less degree.
By Henry Percy Smith
By Thomas Sheridan