electrothermometer
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[edit]Noun
[edit]electrothermometer (plural electrothermometers)
- Any electronic device used to measure temperature, such as a thermistor, thermocouple, etc.
- 1953, Water Pollution Abstracts, page 122:
- Recordings of temperature were made with electrothermometers at two fixed points at either end of the lake.
- 1958, New Surgical Equipment and Instruments and Experience in Their Use, page 56:
- The whole apparatus consists of three parts: an electrothermometer in a plastic case, a set of 8 detectors, and a switch for alternately connecting the detectors and taking their temperature readings.
- 1973, Methods of Observation and Certain Laws Underlying Temperature Conditions of Snow Cover, page 2:
- It should be noted that while working with electrothermometers in the surface layer of glacial cover in the Antarctic, E. N. Tsikin and V. N. Bogosloyskii made use of observations made at four times, which gave sufficient information on the temperature conditions of ice.