Look up: thermometer

1. Thermometer
   An instrument for measuring temperature. In normal meterological practice, mercury-in-glass thermometers are used. For extreme conditions alcohol (which has a freezing point of -114 degrees C) thermometers are used.
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2. thermometer
   [n] - measuring instrument for measuring temperature
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3. Thermometer
   An instrument for measuring temperature.Historical Notes1592 Thermometer was invented by Galileo. He built a crude thermometer using the contraction of air to draw water up a tube.1612 Graduation and inclusion of fixed points was added by Santorre Santorio who used snow and the heat of a candle, div...
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4. thermometer
   An instrument for measuring temperature.
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5. Thermometer
   An instrument for measuring temperatures. Three different systems are employed. The Fahrenheit scale records freezing point of water at 32 degrees and boiling point at 212 degrees; the Centigrade scale registers freezing point at 0 degrees and boiling point at 100 degrees; the Reaumur scale has a fr...
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6. Thermometer
   Thermometer: A device used to measure the temperature of gaseous, liquid or solid matter or of a chemical reaction such as fire. Temperature measurement is important to a wide range of activities, including industry, scientific research, and health care. In health care, thermometers are used to meas...
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7. thermometer
   an instrument for measuring temperature Category: Mechanical engineering • measures the temperature of a body or space by making use of the changes in volume or pressure of liquids,of solids or of gases,when subjected to a change of temperature Category: Physics • a device wh...
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8. Thermometer
   Ther·mom'e·ter (thẽr*mŏm'e*tẽr) noun [ Thermo- + -meter : confer F. thermomètre. See Thermal .] (Physics) An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in...
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9. thermometer
   <physics> An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions. ... The thermometer usually consists of a glass tube of capillary bore, terminating in a bulb, and containin...
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10. thermometer
    noun measuring instrument for measuring temperature
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11. thermometer
    (thәr-mom´ә-tәr) an instrument for determining temperatures, in principle making use of a substance (such as alcohol or mercury) with a physical property that varies with temperature and is susceptible of measurement on some defined scale.
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12. Thermometer
    • (n.) An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions.
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13. thermometer
    (from the article `mercury`) ...is a notable exception) to form amalgams. Mercury does not wet glass or cling to it, and this property, coupled with its uniform volume expansion ... ...associated with the invention of the mercury barometer by Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian physicist-mathematician, in the mid-17th century and ... ...
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14. thermometer
    thermometer An instrument for indicating the temperature (heat) of any substance; usually a sealed vacuum tube containing mercury, which expands with heat and contracts with cold, its level accordingly rising or falling in the tube, with the exact degree of variation of level being indicated by a scale.
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15. Thermometer
    Use to measure the temperature of food that is cooking or cooked, two main types of thermometer are used in cookery, a sugar (candy) thermometer and a meat thermometer.
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16. Thermometer
    An instrument for measuring temperature; in meteorology, generally used to measure the temperature of the air or the soil.
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17. Thermometer
    Device used to measure temperature.
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18. THERMOMETER
    An instrument used for measuring temperature. The different scales used in meteorology are Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin or Absolute.
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19. thermometer
    an instrument used for measuring temperature
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20. thermometer
    thermometer, instrument for measuring temperature. Galileo and Sanctorius devised thermometers consisting essentially of a bulb with a tubular projection, the open end of which was immersed in a liquid. Heating or cooling the bulb affected the height of the column of liquid in the tube, on which a s...
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21. Thermometer
    A thermometer is a device used to measure temperature. It was invented by Galileo in 1592. The graduation and inclusion of fixed points was added by Sanctorio who used snow and the heat of a candle, dividing the range obtained into degrees. The first sealed thermometer was made by Ferdinand II, the ...
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22. thermometer
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ther-mom′ĕ-tĕr Definitions: 1. An instrument for indicating the temperature of any substance; often a sealed vacuum tube containing mercury, which expands with heat and contracts with cold, its level accordingly rising or falling in the tube, with the exact ...
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23. thermometer
    Instrument for measuring temperature. There are many types, designed to measure different temperature ranges to varying degrees of accuracy. Each makes use of a different physical effect of temperature. Expansion of a liquid is employed in common liquid-in-glass thermometers, such as those co...
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24. Thermometer
    A device used to measure the temperature of gaseous, liquid or solid matter or of a chemical reaction such as fire. Temperature measurement is important to a wide range of activities, including industry, scientific research, and health care. In health care, thermometers are used to measure the tempe...
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25. Thermometer
    Developed during the 16th and 17th centuries, a `thermometer` (from the Greek θερμός (thermo) meaning "warm" and meter, "to measure") is a device that measures temperature or publisher=Oxford English Dictionary|accessdate=1 November 2010-->...
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