Réaumur

American

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

noun

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

adjective

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

indicating measurement on the Réaumur scale of temperature

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See, for example, Réaumur, Mémoires pour l’histoire des Insectes, t. i., pp. 23-25.

From The Industries of Animals by Houssay, Frédéric

It was very hot, thirty degrees Réaumur in the shade.

From The Duel and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

Also Réaumur, Mémoires pour d’histoire des Insectes, t. i. p.

From The Industries of Animals by Houssay, Frédéric

While their columns are dancing up and down with laughter at this somewhat tepid and low-pressure pleasantry, there come in a New York Réaumur and a Centigrade from Chicago.

From Our Hundred Days in Europe by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It is then the normal larva; the only form known to Réaumur.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

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