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Webster 1913 Edition
Barometer
Ba-rom′e-ter
,Noun.
[Gr.
βάροσ
weight + -meter
: cf. F. baromètre
.] An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.
☞ The barometer was invented by Torricelli at Florence about 1643. It is made in its simplest form by filling a graduated glass tube about 34 inches long with mercury and inverting it in a cup containing mercury. The column of mercury in the tube descends until balanced by the weight of the atmosphere, and its rise or fall under varying conditions is a measure of the change in the atmospheric pressure. At the sea level its ordinary height is about 30 inches (760 millimeters). See
Sympiesometer
. Nichol.
Aneroid barometer
. See
– Aneroid barometer
, under Aneroid
. Marine barometer
, a barometer with tube contracted at bottom to prevent rapid oscillations of the mercury, and suspended in gimbals from an arm or support on shipboard.
– Mountain barometer
, a portable mercurial barometer with tripod support, and long scale, for measuring heights.
– Siphon barometer
, a barometer having a tube bent like a hook with the longer leg closed at the top. The height of the mercury in the longer leg shows the pressure of the atmosphere.
– Wheel barometer
, a barometer with recurved tube, and a float, from which a cord passes over a pulley and moves an index.
Definition 2024
barométer
barométer
Hungarian
Noun
barométer (plural barométerek)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | barométer | barométerek |
| accusative | barométert | barométereket |
| dative | barométernek | barométereknek |
| instrumental | barométerrel | barométerekkel |
| causal-final | barométerért | barométerekért |
| translative | barométerré | barométerekké |
| terminative | barométerig | barométerekig |
| essive-formal | barométerként | barométerekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | barométerben | barométerekben |
| superessive | barométeren | barométereken |
| adessive | barométernél | barométereknél |
| illative | barométerbe | barométerekbe |
| sublative | barométerre | barométerekre |
| allative | barométerhez | barométerekhez |
| elative | barométerből | barométerekből |
| delative | barométerről | barométerekről |
| ablative | barométertől | barométerektől |
| Possessive forms of barométer | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | barométerem | barométereim |
| 2nd person sing. | barométered | barométereid |
| 3rd person sing. | barométere | barométerei |
| 1st person plural | barométerünk | barométereink |
| 2nd person plural | barométeretek | barométereitek |
| 3rd person plural | barométerük | barométereik |