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thermometrical

  • 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.

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For thermometrical measurement is in actual fact never anything else than a recording of the movement of the indicator from one level to another.

From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs

A gentleman well known to me kept a thermometrical record for nearly half a century, in a New England country town, at an elevation of at least 1,500 feet above the sea.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh

It should be noted that the thermometrical conditions of Tibet vary considerably from those of the Himalaya.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

These high temperatures do not always represent the warmth which might be assumed from the thermometrical readings.

From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

A gentleman well known to me kept a thermometrical record for nearly a half century in a New England county town, at an elevation of at least 1,5000 feet above the sea.

From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh