Réaumur

American  

[rey-uh-myoor, rey-oh-myr] / ˈreɪ əˌmjʊər, reɪ oʊˈmür /

noun

1. René Antoine Ferchault de 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.

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adjective

1. Also Reaumur noting or pertaining to a temperature scale Réaumur scale in which 0° represents the ice point and 80° represents the steam point.

Réaumur British  

/ ˈreɪəˌmjʊə /

adjective

1. indicating measurement on the Réaumur scale of temperature

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Example Sentences

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Réaumur

The second case is that detailed by a no less unexceptionable authority than Réaumur in his "Art de faire éclore les Poulets."

From Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Thomas Henry Huxley

M. Réaumur mentions the circumstance of a quantity of wheat stored in a corn-loft being much infected with the caterpillars of the small corn-moth, which spins a web and unites several grains together.

From Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Hugh Piper

Réaumur narrates this case only as far as the third generation.

From Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

"I hope the prices are according to Réaumur," added Innstetten, as he read the name, and the two took an evening walk along the beach cliffs in the best of humor.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various

Its inventor, Professor Muschenbrock, wrote an account of it to Réaumur, and lacks language to express the terror into which his own experiments had thrown him.

From Steam, Steel and Electricity by James W. Steele