Word: barometricize
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Hosier investigated all 41 explosions to find out what the weather had been outside the mines at the time. In all cases except one, there had been sharp drops in barometric pressure (due to an approaching cold front or a low-pressure area). Two-thirds of the mine explosions, he...
Not mere bargain hunters, but students of intellectual history and sociological problems thronged the monthly book clearance sale of Widener Library yesterday, noting sinister trends barometric of national catastrophe.
In sandy, sun-scorched Yucatán, men had no eyes for the hurricane that last week swept the Gulf of Mexico's other shore. They watched, instead, a storm gathering over the markets of New York. The future price of henequen, basic barometric reading in the peninsula, was...
He needs to know the barometric pressure throughout the flight. His ordinary altimeter (essentially an aneroid barometer) is not enough, for its readings vary with pressure changes due to either altitude or weather. The problem is solved by the radio altimeter, which measures the plane's altitude electronically. Its...
To critics, Dr. Longman retorted: "The present exhibition is too conservative. . . . One might reasonably conclude that the world has gone crazy. This is also the impression you get from your newspaper. The artists themselves are barometric not crazy. . . ."