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thermometer
[ther-mom-i-ter]
noun
an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale marked on the tube or its frame.
thermometer
/ θəˈɒɪə /
noun
an instrument used to measure temperature, esp one in which a thin column of liquid, such as mercury, expands and contracts within a graduated sealed tube See also clinical thermometer gas thermometer resistance thermometer thermocouple pyrometer
thermometer
An instrument used to measure temperature. There are many types of thermometers; the most common consist of a closed, graduated glass tube in which a liquid expands or contracts as the temperature increases or decreases. Other types of thermometers work by detecting changes in the volume or pressure of an enclosed gas or by registering thermoelectric changes in a conductor (such as a thermistor or thermocouple).
Other Word Forms
- thermometric adjective
- thermometrical adjective
- thermometrically adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of thermometer1
Example Sentences
Along the Central Coast, the thermometer could hit 100, with intense heat anticipated in the city of Paso Robles.
For example, these firms can use such data to put a customer into a “new parent” profile and then promote “higher priced baby thermometers on the first page of their search results,” the report stated.
The hottest weather will be in south-east England where the thermometer is expected to reach 27C and it will become the warmest spell of April weather for seven years.
But the thermometer will continue to rise into Sunday, when most areas of Los Angeles County could reach the low 80s, he said.
Mom knew how to fry and did not need a candy thermometer, as I do, to tell her when the oil was ready.
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