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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Meteorol.) An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.
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In the same year he gave the public his "barocyclonometer", an improvement on Father Faura's invention, by which storms may be foretold, not only in the Philippines, but throughout the entire
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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