thermometry
Americannoun
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the branch of physics dealing with the measurement of temperature.
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the science of the construction and use of thermometers.
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Origin of thermometry
Example Sentences
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The sample head measures the thermal Hall effect using capacitive thermometry.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
But the reports have been convincing, says Luís Carlos, a nanoscientist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, who studies intracellular thermometry but was not involved in the new study.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 15, 2021
Although the necrometer ended up nothing more than a joke and a failure, the medical labor system that thermometry and Séguin’s teaching made possible has made all of us constant monitors of our bodily metrics.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2014
Séguin recognized that thermometry and quantitative symptom tracking were becoming central components of modern medicine, but he did not fully understand why.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2014
This result naturally suggests the formation of a new scale of thermometry by the adoption of the defining relation T = 1 ⁄ μ, where T denotes temperature.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
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