Thermometer synonyms

thər-mŏm'ĭ-tər

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thermostat
A device, as in a home heating system, a refrigerator, or an air conditioner, that automatically responds to temperature changes and activates switches controlling the equipment.
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instrument
Any of various devices for indicating or measuring conditions, performance, position, direction, etc. or, sometimes, for controlling operations, as in an aircraft
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regulator
A device used to control the flow of gases, liquids, or electric current.
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fahrenheit (related)
This thermometer or its scale
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kelvin (related)
A temperature scale in which zero occurs at absolute zero and each degree equals one kelvin. Water freezes at 273.15 K and boils at 373.15 K.
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indicator
The definition of an indicator is something that points to or shows something.
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celsius (related)
This thermometer or its scale
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reaumur (related)
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
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manometer (related)
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temperature-sensor (related)
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hygrometer (related)
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pyrometer (related)
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refractometer (related)
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steriliser (related)
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ph-meter (related)
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liquid-in-glass (related)
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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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