Réaumur

[ rey-uh-myoor; French rey-oh-myr ]

noun

1. Re·né An·toine Fer·chault de [r, uh, -, ney, ah, n, -, twan, fe, r, -, shoh, d, uh], 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.

adjective

1. Also Reau·mur. noting or pertaining to a temperature scale Réaumur scale in which 0° represents the ice point and 80° represents the steam point.

Réaumur

/ ˈreɪəˌmjʊə /

adjective

1. indicating measurement on the Réaumur scale of temperature

Example Sentences

Mr. Reaumur has given us, in his History of Insects, some very curious particulars respecting these little worms.

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M. Reaumur also computed that 663,522 spiders would scarcely furnish a single pound of silk.

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In that of Reaumur, which is chiefly used abroad, the freezing point of water is 0, and the boiling point 80.

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Reaumur was probably the first to show that steel could be made by fusing malleable iron with cast-iron.

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Reaumur even asserts, that the larva of Myrmeleon has no other entrance into its throat than through these tubular mandibles.

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