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.
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There was a very handsome triumphal car, to be suspended from it, in which two brothers, the Messrs. Robert, were to ascend with a table for convenience in jotting down their thermometric and other observations.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
This has often been made the matter of exact thermometric record, but it is not equally obvious why marked changes in the wind should take place.
From The Story of Eclipses by George F. (George Frederick) Chambers
His thermometric element consisted of 12 balanced mercury thermometers.
From The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments by Robert P. Multhauf
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
Boyle was well aware of the effect of heat in expanding a gas, but he was unable to investigate this properly as no thermometric scale had been defined at that date.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various