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From Middle English torr, from Old English torr.

torr (plural torrs)

1. Archaic form of tor.

 

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Clipping of Torricelli; named after Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), who discovered the principle of the barometer.

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torr (plural torrs or torr)

1. (metrology) A unit of pressure that is equal to approximately 0.001316 atmospheres or 133.3 pascals.

   Synonyms: (symbol) Torr, (not exactly synonyms, but practically equal) millimeter of mercury

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torr m inan

1. torr (unit of pressure)

• “torr”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “torr”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Named for Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist

torr n (genitive singular tors, plural torr)

1. torr, approximately 1.316·10^-3 atmosphere or 133.3 pascals.

torr m (plural torrs)

1. torr

• “torr”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

torr m (invariable)

1. (meteorology) torr (unit of pressure)

From Latin turris, turrem, from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis), τύρσις (túrsis).

• IPA^(key): /tor/, /tur/

torr ?

1. tower

• tūr, tor

Borrowed from Latin turris.

• IPA^(key): /torr/, [torˠ]

torr m

1. tower

Strong a-stem:

• stīepel m

• fȳrtorr m

• Middle English: tour, thour, tor, tore, toure, towere, towour, tur
  • English: tower (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: tour, towr
  • Yola: toweare

torr m (plural torrs)

1. torr (unit of pressure)

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From Old Norse þurr, from Proto-Germanic *þursuz, from Proto-Indo-European *térsus, from *ters- (“dry”).

torr (comparative torrare, superlative torrast)

1. dry
2. (overly) matter-of-fact and humorless, dull

• torrboll (“bore”)

torr ?

1. torr; a unit of pressure

• torr in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• torr in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• torr in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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