English Explanatory Dictionary

Fortin barometer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of barometer using a variable-displacement mercury cistern, usually constructed with a thumbscrew pressing on a leather diaphragm bottom, which compensates for displacement of mercury in the column with varying pressure.

Word forms

Fortin barometer Fortin barometers

Etymology

Invented by Jean Nicolas Fortin.

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