thermometer
Appearance
See also: Thermometer
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French thermomètre; equivalent to thermo- + -meter.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /θəˈmɒmɪtə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /θɚˈmɑmɪtɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: ther‧mom‧e‧ter
- Rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]thermometer (plural thermometers)
- An apparatus used to measure temperature.
- 1835, John Ross, James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1[1], pages 284–5:
- Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
- 1843, John Holmes Agnew, Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art:
- On the wall were hanging thermometers, barometers, and hydrometers, and every other sort of ometer, numberless, dusty, and mysterious; […]
- 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:
- Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
- 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
- The brothers had thrust the thermometer between two circuit boards in order to look for hot spots inside m zero. The thermometer’s dial was marked “Beef Rare—Ham—Beef Med—Pork.” “You want to keep the machine below ‘Pork,’” Gregory remarked.
Derived terms
[edit]- absolute thermometer
- adjustable contact
- air-temperature thermometer
- air thermometer
- alcohol thermometer
- auxiliary thermometer
- bath thermometer
- Beckmann differential thermometer
- Beckmann thermometer
- bimetallic stem thermometer
- bimetallic thermometer
- bi-metal mechanical thermometer
- bulb of a thermometer
- calibrate a thermometer
- calibrated thermometer
- candy thermometer
- capillary thermometer
- Celsius's thermometer
- Celsius' thermometer
- Celsius thermometer
- Centigrade thermometer
- centigrade thermometer
- clinical thermometer
- constant pressure air thermometer
- constant pressure thermometer
- constant-pressure thermometer
- constant volume air thermometer
- constant volume gas thermometer
- constant-volume thermometer
- constant volume thermometer
- contact thermometer
- Coulomb Blockade Thermometer
- Delisle's thermometer
- Delisle thermometer
- dial thermometer
- differential thermometer
- digital thermometer
- direct-reading thermometer
- ear thermometer
- electronic registering thermometer
- electronic thermometer
- empirical thermometer
- ethanol-filled thermometer
- Fahrenheit's thermometer
- Fahrenheit thermometer
- fever thermometer
- filament thermometer
- film thermometer
- forehead thermometer
- freezer thermometer
- fridge thermometer
- Galilean thermometer
- Galileo's thermometer
- Galileo thermometer
- geothermometer
- glass thermometer
- Hauksbee's thermometer
- Hauksbee thermometer
- infrared thermometer
- kata thermometer
- Kata thermometer
- kerosene-filled thermometer
- kerosene thermometer
- Linnaeus's thermometer
- Linnaeus' thermometer
- Linnaeus thermometer
- liquid crystal thermometer
- liquid-in-glass thermometer
- magnetic thermometer
- maximum and minimum thermometer
- maximum minimum thermometer
- maximum-minimum thermometer
- maximum thermometer
- meat thermometer
- mechanical registering thermometer
- medical centigrade thermometer
- medical thermometer
- mercurial thermometer
- mercury-filled thermometer
- mercury-in-glass thermometer
- mercury thermometer
- minimum and maximum thermometer
- minimum maximum thermometer
- minimum-maximum thermometer
- minimum thermometer
- nanothermometer
- non-registering thermometer
- oven thermometer
- palaeothermometer
- paleothermometer
- patio thermometer
- pill thermometer
- platinum resistance thermometer
- pocket thermometer
- primary thermometer
- protected thermometer
- read the thermometer
- Reaumur's thermometer
- Réaumur's thermometer
- Reaumur thermometer
- Réaumur thermometer
- recording thermometer
- reference thermometer
- registering thermometer
- remote-reading thermometer
- resistance thermometer
- reversing thermometer
- secondary thermometer
- self-registering thermometer
- Six's maximum and minimum thermometer
- Six's thermometer
- spirit-filled thermometer
- spirit thermometer
- standard thermometer
- steel-tube mercury thermometer
- sugar thermometer
- telethermometer
- thermometer bulb
- thermometer code
- thermometer column
- thermometer reading
- thermometer scale
- thermometer temperature reading
- the thermometer is pointing to 7 degrees
- the thermometer shows 100 degrees
- toluene-filled thermometer
- turnover-thermometer
- unprotected reversing thermometer
- unprotected thermometer
- upsetting thermometer
- vapor pressure thermometer
- vapour pressure thermometer
- water thermometer
- wet-bulb thermometer
- wine thermometer
- wire-wound thermometer
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Bengali: থার্মমিটার (tharmomiṭar)
Translations
[edit]apparatus used to measure temperature
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See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: ther‧mo‧me‧ter
Noun
[edit]thermometer m (plural thermometers, diminutive thermometertje n)
Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: termometer
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