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Meaning of 'torricellian' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Torricellian [ 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.

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