Sentence:  The upstream gas temperature measured with the <WSD>thermocouple</WSD> shown in figure 2 was **f . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a kind of thermometer consisting of two wires of different metals that are joined at both ends; one junction is at the temperature to be measured and the other is held at a fixed lower temperature; the current generated in the circuit is proportional to the temperature difference