🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

torr

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tor

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Torr/tɔːr/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A pressão foi medida em torr."

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As noun
  1. 1

    A unit of pressure equal to 133.32 pascals or one millimeter of mercury, used particularly in vacuum measurements.

    "The laboratory chamber was evacuated to a pressure of one millitorr."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Named after Evangelista Torricelli, the 17th-century Italian physicist and mathematician who discovered the principle of the barometer. Adopted internationally into scientific nomenclature to measure low pressures, specifically corresponding to approximately one millimeter of mercury.

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