thermometrical
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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.
Example Sentences
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I have given to our thermometrical observations the form of a chart, as affording the readiest view of the atmospherical changes which took place during our journey.
From Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley
These questions can be cleared up only by direct experiments, made by thermometrical soundings.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
To the - of the creditor may correspond a + of the debtor; but the latter is negative only in the sense that we speak of negative electricity, a negative thermometrical degree.
From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor
The Minister of Marine, wishing to obtain scientific results, gave orders to form, when possible, a marine zoological collection, and to carry on surveying, deep-sea soundings, and abyssal thermometrical measurements.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 by Various
The subject is mystified by these theories and speculations of the study, founded on barometrical and thermometrical records, and the direction and force of the surface winds.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler