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thermograph

American  
[thur-muh-graf, -grahf] / ˈθɜr məˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /

noun

  1. a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.


thermograph British  
/ -ˌɡræf, ˈθɜːməʊˌɡrɑːf /

noun

  1. a type of thermometer that produces a continuous record of a fluctuating temperature

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of thermograph

First recorded in 1830–40; thermo- + -graph

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“What would be cool,” she says, “would be to take an infrared light photo or a thermograph of her to see if the spot pattern is still there—but invisible to our eye.”

From National Geographic Aug. 23, 2023

Figure 14.27 A thermograph of part of a building shows temperature variations, indicating where heat transfer to the outside is most severe.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

Figure 14.35 Artist’s rendition of a thermograph of a patient’s upper body, showing the distribution of heat represented by different colors.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

The system produces a color-coded thermograph of each passerby: red means hot, green means not.

From Time Magazine Archive

A thermograph, left behind in the autumn, was found to be intact and indicated a temperature of -35 degrees F.—the lowest for the eight days during which it had run.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir

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