Torricelli may refer to:
People with the surname
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Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli ( ; ; 15 October 160825 October 1647) was an Italian people, Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Benedetto Castelli. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances i ...
(1608–1647), Italian physicist and mathematician
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Robert Torricelli (born 1951), United States politician
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Moreno Torricelli
Moreno Torricelli (; born 23 January 1970) is an Italian association football, football manager and former Defender (association football), defender, who usually played as a Defender (association football)#Full-back, full-back on the right flank ...
(born 1970), Italian football player
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Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli (1662–1719), Italian sculptor
Science
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Torricelli's law
Torricelli's law, also known as Torricelli's theorem, is a theorem in fluid dynamics relating the speed of fluid flowing from a hole to the height of fluid above the hole. The law states that the speed v of efflux of a fluid through a sharp-edge ...
, a theorem in fluid dynamics
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Torricelli's equation, an equation created by Evangelista Torricelli
* Torricelli's trumpet or
Gabriel's Horn, a geometric figure
* Torricelli point or
Fermat point
In Euclidean geometry, the Fermat point of a triangle, also called the Torricelli point or Fermat–Torricelli point, is a point such that the sum of the three distances from each of the three vertices of the triangle to the point is the smallest ...
, a point such that the total distance from the three vertices of the triangle to the point is the minimum possible
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Torricelli's experiment
Torricelli's experiment was invented in Pisa in 1643 by the Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647). The purpose of his experiment is to prove that the source of Horror vacui (physics), "horror of the vacuum" by nature comes from a ...
, an experiment named after Torricelli
Italian submarines
* ''Evangelista Torricelli'', an
* ''Torricelli'', a
* , the former USS ''Lizardfish''
Other
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Torricelli (crater), a lunar crater in the Sinus Asperitatis
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Torricelli Act, another part of the United States' long running embargo against Cuba
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Torricelli languages
The Torricelli languages are a family of about fifty languages of the northern Papua New Guinea coast, spoken by about 80,000 people. They are named after the Torricelli Mountains. The most populous and best known Torricelli language is Arapesh ...
, a language family of Papua New Guinea
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Torricelli Mountains, a mountain range in Papua New Guinea
See also
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Torr
The torr (symbol: Torr) is a Pressure#Units, unit of pressure based on an absolute scale, defined as exactly of a standard atmosphere (unit), atmosphere (101325 Pa). Thus one torr is exactly (≈ ).
Historically, one torr was intended to be ...
or mm Hg, a unit of pressure named after Evangelista Torricelli
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