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Definition of Isobars
1. isobar [n] - See also: isobar
Medical Definition of Isobars
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Isobars
Literary usage of Isobars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1919)
"This is why all isobars are reduced to sea-level, on isobaric charts. ... (1)
The isobars in general have an east- west course, though many of them are ..."
2. Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day by Ralph Abercromby (1887)
"INCLINATION OF WIND TO isobars. Buy Ballot's law does very well for the ...
Taking all kinds of winds and all kinds of isobars, Whipple has found that the ..."
3. A Textbook of Physics by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"or isobars, shows the distribution of barometric pressure, ... One of the commonest
arrangements of the isobars is that of a series of oval curves, ..."
4. Meteorology, Weather, and Methods of Forecasting, Description of by Thomas Russell (1895)
"isobars. — The distribution of barometric pressure over the globe is very ...
These lines are called "isobars." isobars are usually drawn for pressures ..."
5. Meteorology, Practical and Applied by Sir John William Moore (1894)
"Cyclonic and Anticyclonic isobars. jo. i and five secondary shapes (Fig. 38).
... If, on the contrary, the isobars encircle an area of high pressure, ..."
6. Forecasting Weather by Napier Shaw (1911)
"CLASSIFICATION OF THE FORMS OF isobars The examples cited will be sufficient as
illustrations of the grouping of isobars known as cyclones or cyclonic ..."
7. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1903)
"isobars AND WINDS FOR JULY. So far as I know, this is the only empirical fact
upon which the theory is ... On the accompanying map the isobars and surface I ..."
8. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1919)
"This is why all isobars are reduced to sea-level, on isobaric charts. ... (1)
The isobars in general have an east- west course, though many of them are ..."
9. Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day by Ralph Abercromby (1887)
"INCLINATION OF WIND TO isobars. Buy Ballot's law does very well for the ...
Taking all kinds of winds and all kinds of isobars, Whipple has found that the ..."
10. A Textbook of Physics by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"or isobars, shows the distribution of barometric pressure, ... One of the commonest
arrangements of the isobars is that of a series of oval curves, ..."
11. Meteorology, Weather, and Methods of Forecasting, Description of by Thomas Russell (1895)
"isobars. — The distribution of barometric pressure over the globe is very ...
These lines are called "isobars." isobars are usually drawn for pressures ..."
12. Meteorology, Practical and Applied by Sir John William Moore (1894)
"Cyclonic and Anticyclonic isobars. jo. i and five secondary shapes (Fig. 38).
... If, on the contrary, the isobars encircle an area of high pressure, ..."
13. Forecasting Weather by Napier Shaw (1911)
"CLASSIFICATION OF THE FORMS OF isobars The examples cited will be sufficient as
illustrations of the grouping of isobars known as cyclones or cyclonic ..."
14. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1903)
"isobars AND WINDS FOR JULY. So far as I know, this is the only empirical fact
upon which the theory is ... On the accompanying map the isobars and surface I ..."
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