thermometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɚˈmɒmɪtɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /t̪ʰə(r)ˈmɔˌmiʈə(r)/
note: Indic
ipa: /t̪ʰə(r)mo.miʈə(r)/
Forms: form: thermometers
form: thermometre
Etymology: Borrowed from French thermomètre; equivalent to thermo- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1835, John Ross, James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pages 284–5:
text: On the wall were hanging thermometers, barometers, and hydrometers, and every other sort of ometer, numberless, dusty, and mysterious; […]
ref: 1843, John Holmes Agnew, Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art:
text: Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
ref: 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:
text: 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.
ref: 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: An apparatus used to measure temperature.
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
Related terms: thermistor
thermocouple
thermometric
thermometrical
thermometrically
thermometry
thermoscope
thermostat
barometer
hygrometer
temperature sensor
temperature gun