thermometer

See also: Thermometer

English

A Fahrenheit oven thermometer.

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French thermomètre; equivalent to thermo- + -meter.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /θəˈmɒmɪtə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /θɚˈmɑmɪtɚ/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ther‧mom‧e‧ter
  • Rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

thermometer (plural thermometers)

  1. An apparatus used to measure temperature.
    • 1835, John Ross, James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage , Volume 1, pages 284–5:
      Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
    • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
      The brothers had thrust the thermometer between two circuit boards in order to look for hot spots inside m zero. The thermometer’s dial was marked “Beef Rare—Ham—Beef Med—Pork.” “You want to keep the machine below ‘Pork,’” Gregory remarked.

Derived terms

  • absolute thermometer
  • adjustable contact
  • air-temperature thermometer
  • air thermometer
  • alcohol thermometer
  • auxiliary thermometer
  • bath thermometer
  • Beckmann differential thermometer
  • Beckmann thermometer
  • bimetallic stem thermometer
  • bimetallic thermometer
  • bi-metal mechanical thermometer
  • bulb of a thermometer
  • calibrate a thermometer
  • calibrated thermometer
  • candy thermometer
  • capillary thermometer
  • Celsius's thermometer
  • Celsius' thermometer
  • Celsius thermometer
  • Centigrade thermometer
  • centigrade thermometer
  • clinical thermometer
  • constant pressure air thermometer
  • constant pressure thermometer
  • constant-pressure thermometer
  • constant volume air thermometer
  • constant volume gas thermometer
  • constant-volume thermometer
  • constant volume thermometer
  • contact thermometer
  • Coulomb Blockade Thermometer
  • Delisle's thermometer
  • Delisle thermometer
  • dial thermometer
  • differential thermometer
  • digital thermometer
  • direct-reading thermometer
  • ear thermometer
  • electronic registering thermometer
  • electronic thermometer
  • empirical thermometer
  • ethanol-filled thermometer
  • Fahrenheit's thermometer
  • Fahrenheit thermometer
  • fever thermometer
  • filament thermometer
  • film thermometer
  • forehead thermometer
  • freezer thermometer
  • fridge thermometer
  • Galilean thermometer
  • Galileo's thermometer
  • Galileo thermometer
  • geothermometer
  • glass thermometer
  • Hauksbee's thermometer
  • Hauksbee thermometer
  • infrared thermometer
  • kata thermometer
  • Kata thermometer
  • kerosene-filled thermometer
  • kerosene thermometer
  • Linnaeus's thermometer
  • Linnaeus' thermometer
  • Linnaeus thermometer
  • liquid crystal thermometer
  • liquid-in-glass thermometer
  • magnetic thermometer
  • maximum and minimum thermometer
  • maximum minimum thermometer
  • maximum-minimum thermometer
  • maximum thermometer
  • meat thermometer
  • mechanical registering thermometer
  • medical centigrade thermometer
  • medical thermometer
  • mercurial thermometer
  • mercury-filled thermometer
  • mercury-in-glass thermometer
  • mercury thermometer
  • minimum and maximum thermometer
  • minimum maximum thermometer
  • minimum-maximum thermometer
  • minimum thermometer
  • nanothermometer
  • non-registering thermometer
  • oven thermometer
  • palaeothermometer
  • paleothermometer
  • patio thermometer
  • pill thermometer
  • platinum resistance thermometer
  • pocket thermometer
  • primary thermometer
  • protected thermometer
  • read the thermometer
  • Reaumur's thermometer
  • Réaumur's thermometer
  • Reaumur thermometer
  • Réaumur thermometer
  • recording thermometer
  • reference thermometer
  • registering thermometer
  • remote-reading thermometer
  • resistance thermometer
  • reversing thermometer
  • secondary thermometer
  • self-registering thermometer
  • Six's maximum and minimum thermometer
  • Six's thermometer
  • spirit-filled thermometer
  • spirit thermometer
  • standard thermometer
  • steel-tube mercury thermometer
  • sugar thermometer
  • telethermometer
  • thermometer bulb
  • thermometer code
  • thermometer column
  • thermometer reading
  • thermometer scale
  • thermometer temperature reading
  • the thermometer is pointing to 7 degrees
  • the thermometer shows 100 degrees
  • toluene-filled thermometer
  • turnover-thermometer
  • unprotected reversing thermometer
  • unprotected thermometer
  • upsetting thermometer
  • vapor pressure thermometer
  • vapour pressure thermometer
  • water thermometer
  • wet-bulb thermometer
  • wine thermometer
  • wire-wound thermometer

Descendants

  • Bengali: থার্মমিটার (tharmomiṭar)

Translations

See also

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

From thermo- + meter.

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ther‧mo‧me‧ter

Noun

thermometer m (plural thermometers, diminutive thermometertje n)

  1. thermometer

Descendants

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