Thermometer
[θə'mɒmɪtə] or [θɚ'mɑmɪtɚ]
解释:
(n.) An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions.
编辑:汤姆
解释:
n. an instrument for measuring the variations of sensible heat or temperature.—adjs. Thermomet′ric -al pertaining to or made with a thermometer.—adv. Thermomet′rically.—For the Centigrade and the Fahrenheit scale and their relations to each other see Centigrade and Fahrenheit. In the Ré–umur scale still largely used in Russia and Germany the freezing-point is marked zero and the space between this and boiling-point is divided into 80 degrees. To reduce it to Fahrenheit multiply by 2?and add 32; to Centigrade increase the number by one-fourth of itself. Thus: F = 9⁄5 C + 32 = 9⁄4 R + 32; C = 5⁄9 (F - 32) = 5⁄4 R; R = 4⁄9 (F - 32) = 4⁄5 C.—Maximum thermometer one that registers the maximum temperature to which it is exposed; Minimum thermometer one that registers the minimum temperature to which it is exposed.
编辑:马克斯
娱乐性解释：
To dream of looking at a thermometer, denotes unsatisfactory business, and disagreements in the home. To see a broken one, foreshadows illness. If the mercury seems to be falling, your affairs will assume a distressing shape. If it is rising, you will be able to throw off bad conditions in your business.
博比编辑
娱乐性解释：
A short, glass tube that regulates the weather—and usually does a poor job.
费理斯编辑
例句:
- The thermometer can also be used in detecting adulterants. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- It's like jerking down the mercury in a thermometer: just a trick. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The use of the thermometer in recording the progress of fevers is also a valuable modern application, and the list of instruments and small tools is beyond enumeration. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- For myself, my term of service in India had trained me to stand heat better than cold, and a thermometer of 90 was no hardship. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- One of the chief values of a thermometer is the service it has rendered to medicine. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Only if Brooke is going to be a thermometer, I must mind and have fair weather for him to report. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Before 1641 a true thermometer was constructed by sealing the top of the tube after driving out the air b y heat. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- For protection he varies the number of his suits of underclothing, sometimes wearing three or four sets, according to the thermometer. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The modern thermometer consists of a glass tube at the lower end of which is a bulb filled with mercury or colored alcohol (Fig. 8). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- If a thermometer is held for a few minutes under the tongue of a normal, healthy person, the mercury will rise to about 98. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Place the bulb of the thermometer even with the top of the eggs, that is, when the thermometer is lying down in the drawer. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Here he experimented on his next invention, that of the air thermometer. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The thermometer in use in the United States is marked in this way and is called the Fahrenheit thermometer after its designer. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- A thermometer could be put to good use in every kitchen; the inexperienced housekeeper who cannot judge of the heat of the oven would be saved bad bread, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- If a handful of common salt is placed in a small cup of water and stirred with a thermometer, the temperature of the mixture falls several degrees. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Glass thermometers of the above type are the ones most generally used, but there are many different types for special purposes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- He was the only one who could make clinical thermometers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- His apparatus consisted of rude home-made rain-gauges, thermometers, and barometers. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
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