Réaumur

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English

Etymology

Named after French scientist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹeɪəʊˈmjʊə(ɹ)/

Noun

Réaumur (uncountable)

  1. Réaumur scale, a temperature scale in which the boiling point of water is 80 degrees and its freezing point is 0 degrees.

Adjective

Réaumur (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly as postmodifier) Measured on the Réaumur scale.
    • 1898, Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and her German Garden, Vintage, published 2017, page 97:
      It is very cold,—fifteen degrees of frost Réaumur, but perfectly delicious, still, bright weather, and one feels jolly and energetic and amiably disposed towards everybody.
    • 1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 5:
      I am able to state that the morning of Sebastian's birth was a fine windless one, with twelve degrees (Réaumur) below zero….

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Noun

Réaumur n

  1. Alternative spelling of Reaumur
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