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thermometer

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English

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A Fahrenheit oven thermometer.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French thermomètre; equivalent to thermo- +‎ -meter.

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Noun

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thermometer (plural thermometers)

  1. 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.

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  • Bengali: থার্মমিটার (tharmomiṭar)

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Etymology

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From thermo- +‎ meter.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ther‧mo‧me‧ter

Noun

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thermometer m (plural thermometers, diminutive thermometertje n)

  1. thermometer

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