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barology
/bəɹˈɒlədʒi/
noun 2
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4ADJ.
dynamical
VERB + BAROLOGY
part, seem
BAROLOGY + NOUN
anything, science
PREP.
in
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noun
1
The science of gravity or weight.
We have seen enough of the difficulties of hydrodynamics to understand that the part of dynamical barology which relates to fluids must still be very imperfect.
Barology, or the science which embraces all the phenomena of terrestrial gravitation, is regarded as the purest of all the branches of physics, and therefore stands at the head of the category after astronomy.
2
A method of analyzing music according to hypermeter, deriving a structure of strong and weak bars and then phrases.
The barology is realised through the subtle agogic placement of beats and bars relative to each other in the hierarchy of the pypermeter; in other words, some beats sound late and some early; and some bars sound early and some late.
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We have seen enough of the difficulties of hydrodynamics to understand that the part of dynamical barology which relates to fluids must still be very imperfect.
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Barology, or the science which embraces all the phenomena of terrestrial gravitation, is regarded as the purest of all the branches of physics, and therefore stands at the head of the category after a
Wiktionary03
Thus it would seem that in barology, anything that went beyond mere barometer readings to the interpretation of these readings should be considered a hypothesis.
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