English > thermometer: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | measuring instrument for measuring temperature. |
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| Parts | capillary, capillary tube, capillary tubing | A tube of small internal diameter |
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| Narrower | Centigrade thermometer | A thermometer calibrated in degrees centigrade |
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| Fahrenheit thermometer | A thermometer calibrated in degrees Fahrenheit |
| Reaumur thermometer | An alcohol thermometer calibrated in degrees Reaumur |
| alcohol thermometer, alcohol-in-glass thermometer | thermometer consisting of a glass capillary tube marked with degrees ... / degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit and containing alcohol which rises or falls as it expands or contracts with changes in temperature |
| candy thermometer | A thermometer used to determine the temperature of candy syrups during cooking |
| cryometer | A thermometer designed to measure low temperatures |
| dry-bulb thermometer | An ordinary thermometer with a dry bulb |
| gas thermometer, air thermometer | thermometer that measures temperature by changes in the pressure of a gas kept at constant volume |
| maximum and minimum thermometer | thermometer that records the highest and lowest temperatures reached during a period of time |
| meat thermometer | A thermometer that is inserted into the center of a roast (with the top away from the heat / heat source) |
| mercury thermometer, mercury-in-glass thermometer | thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees ... / degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit |
| oven thermometer | A thermometer that registers the temperature inside an oven |
| pyrometer | A thermometer designed to measure high temperatures |
| resistance thermometer, platinum thermometer | thermometer that measures temperature by changes in the resistance of a spiral of platinum wire |
| reversing thermometer | A thermometer that registers the temperature in deep waters |
| self-registering thermometer | A thermometer that records the temperature automatically |
| telethermometer | A thermometer that registers the temperature at some distant point |
| thermocouple, thermocouple junction | A kind of thermometer consisting of two wires of different metals that are joined at both ends |
| thermoelectric thermometer, thermel, electric thermometer | A thermometer that uses thermoelectric current to measure temperature |
| thermograph, thermometrograph | A thermometer that records temperature variations on a graph as a function of time |
| thermopile | A kind of thermometer for measuring heat radiation |
| wet-bulb thermometer | A thermometer with a bulb that is covered with moist muslin |
| Broader | measuring instrument, measuring system, measuring device | instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something |
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| Spanish | termometro, termómetro |
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| Catalan | termòmetre |
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| Adjectives | thermometric | of or relating to thermometry |
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