[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

torricellian \tor`ricel"lian\, 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.
   1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
barometer torricellian tube torricellian vacuum 

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