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Adjective: barotropic  ,ber-u'tró-pik [N. Amer], ,ba-ru'tró-pik [Brit]
  1. (physics) with pressure that is a function only of the density
    "Linear instability analysis is used to study the role of barotropic dynamics"

Encyclopedia: Barotropic