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torr

/tawr/US // tɔr //UK // (tɔː) //

托尔,托拉,托架,托拉尔

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a unit of pressure, being the pressure necessary to support a column of mercury one millimeter high at 0°C and standard gravity, equal to 1333.2 microbars.

Examples

  • There the thrush and the blackbird sang at morning and evening, and the owl cried at night, and the buck belled upon the Torr.

  • Skager was to sail at midnight, and Torr was determined that Jan should not leave the house until that hour was passed.

  • Take only a fraction from the income, and how would the Torr be kept up?

  • He might have reached the Torr the previous day; but he did not.

  • Taking a round to the Torr first, he drove into the back-yard.