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Isobaric   Listen
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Isobaric  adj.  (Phys. Geog.) Denoting equal pressure; as, an isobaric line; specifically, of or pertaining to isobars.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Isobaric" Quotes from Famous Books



... feet to be as warm as toast." As the island on which they had landed was at one side of the archipelago, but was itself at the exact pole, it followed that the centre of the archipelago was not the part farthest north. This in a measure accounted for the slight thickness of ice and snow, for the isobaric lines would slope, and consequently what wind there was would flow towards the interior of the archipelago, whose surface was colder than the surrounding ocean. The moist air, however, coming almost entirely from the south, would lose most of its ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds • J. J. Astor



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