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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
/ θəˈ³¾É’³¾Éª³ÙÉ™ /
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
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- 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 ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ù³ó±ð°ù·³¾´Ç·³¾±ð³Ù·°ù¾±³¦ [thur-m, uh, -, me, -trik], ³Ù³ó±ð°ùm´Ç·³¾±ð³Ù۾±Â·³¦²¹±ô adjective
- ³Ù³ó±ð°ùm´Ç·³¾±ð³Ù۾±Â·³¦²¹±ô·ly adverb
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of thermometer1
Example Sentences
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.
A brisk north to north-easterly wind into Thursday will also make it feel colder than the thermometer suggests.
Southern California’s unusually warm winter weather this week broke five temperature records Thursday as a strong high pressure system pushed the thermometer to around 15 degrees above normal across the region.
In hospital records, the thermometers designed to read the body temperatures of patients mostly came out at 107 degrees, which was mysterious until doctors realized that the instruments were not designed to go any higher.
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