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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.
2. 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 (Physics), 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. Hutton.
3. Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher andmathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid ina tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. SeeBarometer. Torricellian tube, a glass tube thirty or more inches inlength, open at the lower end and hermetically sealed at the upper,such as is used in the barometer.-- Torricellian vacuum (Physics), a vacuum produced by filling witha fluid, as mercury, a tube hermetically closed at one end, and,after immersing the other end in a vessel of the same fluid, allowingthe inclosed fluid to descend till it is counterbalanced by thepressure of the atmosphere, as in the barometer. Hutton.
4. 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.