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thermometric

  • a word derived from thermometer.
    thermometer
    noun
    an 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.
  • a word derived from thermometry.
    thermometry
    noun
    the branch of physics dealing with the measurement of temperature.

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Between day and night there is very little thermometric difference.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

But the flora of a locality, being the resultant of all its conditions, affords us a much better criterion of the value of the climate for economic purposes, than the most accurate thermometric observations.

From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor

This thermometric scale, having 180° between freezing and boiling water, and that of Celsius, with 100°, are the only ones in scientific use to-day.

From Sounding the Ocean of Air by A. Lawrence Rotch

The actinometer of M. Violle is, in principle, a sphere of copper, blackened externally, and having inside a thermometric apparatus which registers some distance away.

From Sounding the Ocean of Air by A. Lawrence Rotch

This result may be contrasted with the erroneous statement frequently made that equal increments of temperature correspond to equal increments of the volume of the thermometric substance.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray