barómetro 667
barometer . (Do of baro - and ? ´metro ). 1. m. instrument used to determine atmospheric pressure. 2. m. thing deemed index or measure of a certain process or State. The press is a barometer that indicates the degree of culture of a people barometer aneroid. 1. m. barometer metallic. barometer of mercury. 1. m. Which indicates the pressure of a gas by the difference of level between two containers filled with mercury, communicated among themselves, one of which is a vertical tube of about 90 cm long, whose upper part have been in the vacuum above the level of mercury. The other container can be another tube or any deposit and in it the surface of mercury is directly in contact with the atmosphere or gas whose pressure is to measure. barometer holostérico. 1. m. barometer metallic. barometer metallic. 1. m. The consisting of a metal container, with very elastic walls, which extracted air and that modifies its shape when the pressure of the atmosphere varies. Such modification is transmitted amplified to a needle that points out the pressure. barometer Registrar. 1. m. Which automatically register variations of atmospheric pressure in a rotating cylinder.