Thermometer
[θə'mɒmɪtə] or [θɚ'mɑmɪtɚ]
Definition
(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.
Checker: Tom
Definition
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.
Checker: Max
Unserious Contents or Definition
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.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A short, glass tube that regulates the weather—and usually does a poor job.
Typed by Ferris
Examples
- The thermometer can also be used in detecting adulterants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It's like jerking down the mercury in a thermometer: just a trick. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- One of the chief values of a thermometer is the service it has rendered to medicine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Only if Brooke is going to be a thermometer, I must mind and have fair weather for him to report. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Before 1641 a true thermometer was constructed by sealing the top of the tube after driving out the air b y heat. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- For protection he varies the number of his suits of underclothing, sometimes wearing three or four sets, according to the thermometer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If a thermometer is held for a few minutes under the tongue of a normal, healthy person, the mercury will rise to about 98. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Place the bulb of the thermometer even with the top of the eggs, that is, when the thermometer is lying down in the drawer. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Here he experimented on his next invention, that of the air thermometer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The thermometer in use in the United States is marked in this way and is called the Fahrenheit thermometer after its designer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Glass thermometers of the above type are the ones most generally used, but there are many different types for special purposes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He was the only one who could make clinical thermometers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His apparatus consisted of rude home-made rain-gauges, thermometers, and barometers. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Checker: Lyman