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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
torr /tɔː/

▶noun (pl. same) a unit of pressure equivalent to 1 mm of mercury in a barometer and equal to 133.32 pascals.

– origin 1940s: named after Evangelista Torricelli (see Torricellian vacuum).

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