Barometric vs Barometrical - What's the difference?
barometric | barometrical |
Of or pertaining to atmospheric pressure.
* A low barometric pressure is characteristic of hurricanes.
Made or done with a barometer
(archaic) Relating to, or observed with, a barometer, barometric.
*{{quote-book, year=1918, author=John Muir, title=Steep Trails, chapter=, edition=
, passage=On the 30th, accompanied by Jerome Fay, I made another ascent to make some barometrical observations, the day intervening between the two ascents being devoted to establishing a camp on the extreme edge of the timberline. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1890, author=William Henry Hurlbert, title=France and the Republic, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Of course, account must be taken of other than political considerations in estimating the significance of this record, nor do I wish unduly to dwell upon what may be called its barometrical value in the study of contemporaneous French history. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1868, author=John Wilson, title=Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2, chapter=, edition=
, passage=We do not mean to ask if you have from youth been in the daily practice of rising from your study-chair at regular intervals, and ascertaining the precise point of Mercury's elevation on the barometrical scale. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1789, author=Thomas Jefferson, title=Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I examined, with great satisfaction, your barometrical estimate of the heights of our mountains; and with the more, as they corroborated conjectures on this subject which I had made before. }}
As adjectives the difference between barometric and barometrical
is that barometric is of or pertaining to atmospheric pressure while barometrical is relating to, or observed with, a barometer, barometric.barometric
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