thermometric
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a word derived from
thermometer.
thermometernounan 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.
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a word derived from
thermometry.
thermometrynounthe branch of physics dealing with the measurement of temperature.
Example Sentences
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The hour of the day appears to be indifferent, since there exists no thermometric diurnal variation in the strata of the surface.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
The first, an apparatus of the brothers Brunner of Paris, was a thermometric combination of two bars, one of platinum and one of brass, in length 4 metres, furnished with three levels and four thermometers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
This excess is the thermometric effect which the solar heat produces at the surface; now, instead of the large numbers adopted by Mairan, Bailly, and Buffon, what has our colleague found?
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
The physical signs are often difficult of interpretation, but if careful examination of the chest be conducted, together with thermometric observations, the approach of this danger or its actual presence may be detected.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
This is really only an absolute unit in disguise, and evades the essential point, which is the selection of a standard temperature for the water thermometric unit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various