weight or pressure, esp. atmospheric pressure: barograph
Origin of baro-
from Classical Greek baros, weight from barys, heavy: see grave
prefix
The definition of baro means pressure or weight.
An example of the baro prefix is in the word barometer, which is a device that measures atmospheric pressure.
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baro-
or bar-
prefix
Weight; pressure: barometer.
Origin of baro-
From Greek baros weight ; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Sentence Examples
- The Baro, Pibor and Akobo form for 250 m.
- Hos numeros Primus invenit clarissimus vir Iohannes Neperus Baro Merchistonij; eos autem ex eiusdem sententia mutavit, eorumque ortum et usum illustravit Henricus Briggius..
- His first mention of the subject occurs in a letter to Schikhart dated the i ith of March 1618, in which he writes - " Extitit Scotus Baro, cujus nomen mihi excidit, qui praeclari quid praestitit, necessitate omni multiplicationum et divisionum in meras additiones et subtractiones commutata, nec sinibus utitur: at tamen opus est ipsi tangentium canone: et varietas, crebritas, difficultasque additionum subtractionumque alicubi laborem multiplicandi et dividendi superat."
- Unites with the Baro, the river below the confluence taking the name of Sobat.
- Railway from Baro on the Niger via Bida and Zaria to Kano - a distance of about 400 m.
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