Réaumur

English

Etymology

From René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪəʊˈmjʊə(ɹ)/

Noun

Réaumur (uncountable)

1. A temperature scale in which the boiling point of water is 80 degrees and its freezing point is 0 degrees. [from 18th c.]

Adjective

Réaumur (not comparable)

1. (chiefly as postmodifier) Measured on the Réaumur scale. [from 18th c.]
   • 1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 5:

     I am able to state that the morning of Sebastian's birth was a fine windless one, with twelve degrees (Réaumur) below zero….