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Webster 1913 Edition
Torricellian
Torˊri-cel′li-an
,Adj.
Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See
Barometer
. Torricellian tube
, a glass tube thirty or more inches in length, open at the lower end and hermetically sealed at the upper, such as is used in the barometer.
– Torricellian vacuum
(Physics)
, a vacuum produced by filling with a fluid, as mercury, a tube hermetically closed at one end, and, after immersing the other end in a vessel of the same fluid, allowing the inclosed fluid to descend till it is counterbalanced by the pressure of the atmosphere, as in the barometer.
Hutton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Torricellian
TORRICEL'LIAN
,Adj.
Torricellian tube, is a glass tube thirty or more inches in length, open at one end, and hermetically sealed at the other.
Torricellian vacuum, a vacuum produced by filling a tube with mercury, and allowing it to descend till it is counterbalanced by the weight of an equal column of the atmosphere, as in the barometer.
Definition 2024
Torricellian
Torricellian
English
Adjective
Torricellian (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist
Derived terms
- Torricellian barometer
- Torricellian chamber
- Torricellian tube
- Torricellian vacuum