thermometer

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English

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A Fahrenheit oven thermometer.

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Etymology

Borrowed from French thermomètre; equivalent to thermo- +‎ -meter.

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Noun

thermometer (plural thermometers)

  1. An apparatus used to measure temperature.
    • 1835, John Ross, James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1‎, pages 284–5:
      Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
    • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
      The brothers had thrust the thermometer between two circuit boards in order to look for hot spots inside m zero. The thermometer’s dial was marked “Beef Rare—Ham—Beef Med—Pork.” “You want to keep the machine below ‘Pork,’” Gregory remarked.

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  • → Bengali: থার্মমিটার (tharmomiṭar)

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Etymology

From thermo- +‎ meter.

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  • Hyphenation: ther‧mo‧me‧ter

Noun

thermometer m (plural thermometers, diminutive thermometertje n)

  1. thermometer

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