How to pronounce millibar
American English pronunciation
MIL-ih-bar
- IPA
- /ˈmɪlɪˌbɑɹ/
- Syllables
- MIL · ih · bar (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What millibar means
A unit of air pressure used in weather reports
In a sentence: The weather map showed the air pressure over our state in millibars.
Where it comes from: It joins milli-, meaning one thousandth, and bar, a bigger unit of air pressure. So it takes a thousand millibars to make one bar.
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