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Torricelli
[ tawr-i-chel-ee; Italian tawr-ree-chel-lee ]
noun
- ····ٲ [e-vahn-je-, lee, -stah], 1608–47, Italian physicist.
Torricelli
/ ˌɒɪˈʃɛɪ /
noun
- TorricelliEvangelista16081647MItalianSCIENCE: physicistSCIENCE: mathematician Evangelista (evandʒeˈlista). 1608–47, Italian physicist and mathematician, who discovered the principle of the barometer
Torricelli
/ ō′rə-ĕ′ŧ /
- Italian mathematician and physicist noted for discovering that the atmosphere exerts pressure. He demonstrated that this pressure affected the level of mercury in a tube, thereby inventing the mercury barometer (1643).
Other yvlog Forms
- մǰr·l· adjective
Example Sentences
“I understand personal loyalty and I understand the depths of friendship, but somebody needs to take a stand here,” former New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli told the New York Times.
About the time of the Pascals' conversion, a friend of Étienne’s—a military engineer—came to visit and repeated Torricelli’s experiment for the Pascals.
“I think the base was fine,” Torricelli said.
In 1651 Pascal reacted with horror to the suggestion that he had tried to pass Torricelli’s experiment off as his own: everyone understood, he insisted, that this would be the scholarly equivalent of theft.
He later joined Paul Weiss, one of the best-known law firms in New York, where he defended Robert Torricelli, the New Jersey senator accused of campaign finance violations.
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