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Torricellianadjective
Of or pertaining to Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist
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torricellian
Evangelista Torricelli ( TORR-ee-CHEL-ee, also US: TOR-, Italian: [evandʒeˈlista torriˈtʃɛlli] (listen); 15 October 1608 – 25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Galileo. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles. The Torr is named after him.
Webster Dictionary
Torricellianadjective
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
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Torricellian
tor-i-sel′i-an, or tor-i-chēl′i-an, adj. pertaining to the Italian mathematician Evangelista Torricelli (1608-47), who discovered in 1643 the principle on which the barometer is constructed.—Torricellian tube, the barometer; Torricellian vacuum, the vacuum in the barometer.
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The numerical value of torricellian in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of torricellian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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