Thermometer Synonyms

thər-mŏmĭ-tər
An instrument for measuring temperatures, consisting of a graduated glass tube with a sealed, capillary bore in which mercury, colored alcohol, etc. rises or falls as it expands or contracts with changes in temperature
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. thermostat
  2. mercury
  3. calorimeter
  4. oral thermometer
  5. anal thermometer
  6. clinical thermometer
  7. indicator
  8. resistance thermometer
  9. thermoelectric
  10. thermoscope
  11. instrument
  12. telethermometer
  13. thermo-regulator;
  14. regulator

Words Related to Thermometer

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. fahrenheit
  2. celsius
  3. kelvin
  4. reaumur
  5. hygrometer
  6. liquid-in-glass
  7. pyrometer
  8. manometer
  9. refractometer
  10. temperature-sensor
  11. steriliser
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Thermometer Sentence Examples

  • The thermometer nailed to the porch read eighty-five degrees.

  • Warmth ran up her neck like a thermometer on a hot day.

  • There is no difficulty in observing the temperature of the surface of the sea on board ship, the only precautions required being to draw the water in a bucket which has not been heated in the sun in summer or exposed to frost in winter, to draw it well forward of any discharge pipes of the steamer, to place it in the shade on deck, insert the thermometer immediately and make the reading without delay.

  • The temperature drops so rapidly that a month later, about October the oth on the middle Urals and November the 15th throughout Russia, the thermometer ceases to rise above the freezing-point.

  • In the same way, whilst in the plains and hills round Naples snow is rarely seen, and never remains long, and the thermometer seldom descends to the freezing-point, 20 m.

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