TORRICELLIAN
\tɒɹˈa͡ɪsə͡lˌi͡ən], \tɒɹˈaɪsəlˌiən], \t_ɒ_ɹ_ˈaɪ_s_əl_ˌiə_n]\
Definitions of TORRICELLIAN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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tor-i-sel'i-an, or tor-i-ch[=e]l'i-an, adj. pertaining to the Italian mathematician Evangelista Torricelli (1608-47), who discovered in 1643 the principle on which the barometer is constructed.--TORRICELLIAN TUBE, the barometer; TORRICELLIAN VACUUM, the vacuum in the barometer.
By Thomas Davidson
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Described by Torricelli, an Italian physicist (1643); as T. vacuum (see Barometer). T. experiment, the experimental demonstration of the fact that the height of the liquid in a barometric tube (T. tube) varies with the atmospheric pressure.
By Alexander Duane
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