Definition of Torricellian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer.

Definition of Torricellian

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist ¹

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Medical Definition of Torricellian

1. Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer. Torricellian tube, a glass tube thirty or more inches in length, open at the lower end and hermetically sealed at the upper, such as is used in the barometer. Torricellian vacuum, a vacuum produced by filling with a fluid, as mercury, a tube hermetically closed at one end, and, after immersing the other end in a vessel of the same fluid, allowing the inclosed fluid to descend till it is counterbalanced by the pressure of the atmosphere, as in the barometer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Torricellian

torrefaction
torrefied
torrefies
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torrefying
torrent
torrented
torrential
torrentially
torrenting
torrents
torrentuous
torret
torrets
torreyite
torricellian (current term)
torrid zone
torrider
torridest
torridities
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torridness
torridnesses
torrified
torrifies
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torril

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