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thermometer

[ ther-mom-i-ter ]

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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

/ θəˈmɒmɪtə /

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

/ thər-mŏm′ĭ-tər /

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).

ther·mo·met·ric [thur-m, uh, -, me, -trik], thermo·metri·cal adjective
thermo·metri·cal·ly adverb

First recorded in 1615–25; thermo- + -meter

Turn the heat down to 325°F and continue cooking until internal temperature reads 140°F on a thermometer.

It's almost impossible to read the thermometer of public opinion when it comes to LaBeouf's recent melt down/revelation.

Every time the thermometer drops, another anti-science politician mocks climate change as a fallacy.

Most recently, in 2010, iPod creator Tony Fadell launched Nest, a smart thermometer that adjusts to your living habits.

If you have a cooking thermometer, cook until the temperature reaches 175 degrees.

One day in April the thermometer suddenly rose to eighteen above the freezing-point of Fahrenheit.

He is as sensitive to every change in ones voice as the thermometer is to changes in the atmosphere.

The warmth of the weather now began rapidly to increase; the thermometer at noon ranged as high as 79 degrees.

The thermometer now ranged between 87 and 89 degrees and the weather was consequently extremely oppressive and sultry.

The weather very cold, though the thermometer is at 56°, barometer 29–08; a very heavy swell.

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