Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In physical geography, indicating equal barometric pressure. Also isobaric.
Wiktionary
- adj. Indicating equal barometric pressure.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Phys. Geog.) Indicating equal barometric pressure.
Etymologies
- iso- + barometric (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If with KÂmtz we connect together by 'isobarometric' lines those places which present the same mean difference between the monthly extremes of the barometer, we shall have curves whose geographical position and inflections yield important conclusions regarding the influence exercised by the form of the land and the distribution of seas on the oscillations of the atmosphere.”
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
“Hindostan with its high mountain chains and triangular peninsulas, and the eastern coasts of the New Continent, where the warm Gulf Stream turns to the east at the Newfoundland Banks, exhibit greater isobarometric oscillations than do the group of the Antilles and Western Europe.”
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
“Kamtz, isobarometric lines, 315; doubts on the greater dryness of mountain air, 334.”
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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