Reaumur

[reiəmjuə]

(noun.) French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer (1683-1757).

Editor: Val--From WordNet

(a.) Of or pertaining to Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Reaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented.

(n.) A Reaumur thermometer or scale.

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