English Explanatory Dictionary

Buys Ballot's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A rule stating that, in the Northern Hemisphere, if a person stands with their back to the wind, the atmospheric pressure is low to the left and high to the right (because wind travels counterclockwise around low-pressure zones in the Northern Hemisphere).

Word forms

Buys Ballot's law

Etymology

Named after C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist.

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