Thermometer

Definition: Thermometer

Thermometer

Noun

1. Measuring instrument for measuring temperature.

Date "thermometer" was first used: 1633. (references)

Etymology: Thermometer \Ther*mom"e*ter\, noun. [Thermo- -meter: compare to the French expression thermom[`e]tre. See Thermal.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Thermometer

Domain	Definitions
Electrical Engineering	Based on the principle that the heating of the junction of two different electric conductors generates an electro-motive force proportional to the temperature. Source: European Union. (references)
Physics	Measures the temperature of a body or space by making use of the changes in volume or pressure of liquids, of solids or of gases, when subjected to a change of temperature. Source: European Union. (references)
19th Century Satire	A short, glass tube that regulates the weather--and usually does a poor job. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Aerospace	A device for measuring temperature. (references)
Computing	A device which converts temperature changes into liquid motion, and which indicates the temperature by means of changes in the level of a liquid in a glass tube. The liquid is usually Mercury or alcohol. Source: European Union. (references)
Dream Interpretation	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. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Mechanical Engineering	An instrument for measuring temperature. Source: European Union. (references)
Meteorology & Standards	A tube or tubular opening provided expressly for the insertion of a thermometer. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	An instrument for determining temperature usually by means of a scale graduated directly in temperature units and consisting typically of (1) a device having a bimetallic element, the expansion or contraction of which indicates a change in temperature, or (2) a glass bulb attached to a fine tube of glass with a numbered scale etched on it or fastened to it and containing a liquid (as mercury or cooled alcohol) that is sealed in and rises and falls with changes of temperature and that indicates the temperature by the number at the top of the column of liquid. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Thermometer

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A thermometer is a device used to measure temperatures or temperature changes.

There are many different thermometers relying on different principles. These include:

Thermistors
Thermocouples
Mercury-in-glass thermometers
Silicon bandgap temperature sensors
Infrared thermometers

See also Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thermometer."

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Synonyms within Context: Thermometer

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Heat	Pyrology; thermology, thermotics, thermodynamics; thermometer .
Measurement	Bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer, pantometer, pluviometer, pneumatometer, pneumometer, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer, telemeter, udometer, vacuometer, variometer, viameter, thermometer, thermistor (heat), barometer (air), anemometer (wind), dynamometer, goniometer (angle) meter; landmark; (limit); balance, scale; (weight); marigraph, pneumatograph, stethograph; rain gauge, rain gage; voltmeter(volts), ammeter(amps); spectrophotometer (light absorbance); mass spectrophotometer(molecular mass); geiger counter, scintillation counter(radioactivity); pycnometer (liquid density); graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume); radar gun (velocity); radar (distance); side-looking radar (shape, topography); sonar (depth in water); light meter (light intensity); clock, watch, stopwatch, chronometer (time); anemometer (wind velocity); densitometer (color intensity).
Remedy	Clinical thermometer, stethoscope, X-ray machine.
Thermometer	Noun: thermometer, thermometrograph, mercury thermometer, alcohol thermometer, clinical thermometer, dry-bulb thermometer, wet-bulb thermometer, Anschutz thermometer, gas thermometer, telethermometer; color-changing temperature indicator; thermopile, thermoscope; pyrometer, calorimeter, bomb calorimeter; thermistor, thermocouple.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Thermometer

English words defined with "thermometer": Aethrioscope, air thermometer, alcohol thermometer, alcohol-in-glass thermometer, Anders Celsius, attain ♦ Beckman thermometer, Bulb of a tooth ♦ calibrate, calibration, candy thermometer, Carnot's function, celsius, Centigrade thermometer, clinical thermometer, cryometer ♦ Daniell's hygrometer, Differential thermometer, dry-bulb thermometer ♦ electric thermometer ♦ fahrenheit, Fahrenheit thermometer, freezing point ♦ Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, gas thermometer, Geothermometer ♦ hit ♦ inaccurate ♦ maximum and minimum thermometer, Maximum thermometer, meat thermometer, mercury, mercury thermometer, mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer, mercury-in-glass thermometer, Metallic thermometer, Meteorometer, Minimum thermometer ♦ Negative sign ♦ oven thermometer ♦ platinum thermometer, psychrometer, pyrometer ♦ reach, read, Reaumur, Reaumur thermometer, record, register, Register thermometer, Registering, Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, resistance thermometer, reversing thermometer ♦ self-registering thermometer, show, standardisation, standardization ♦ telethermometer, thermel, Thermetograph, thermocouple, thermocouple junction, thermoelectric thermometer, thermograph, thermogravimeter, thermohydrometer, Thermometrical, Thermometrically, thermometrograph, thermopile, Thermoscope ♦ Water thermometer, wet-bulb thermometer. (references)

Specialty definitions using "thermometer": bucket thermometer ♦ distant reading thermometer ♦ globe thermometer ♦ kata thermometer ♦ recording thermometer, remote reading thermometer ♦ soil thermometer ♦ THERMOMETER PRODUCTION WORKER, thermometer scales, THERMOMETER TESTER. (references)

Etymologies containing "thermometer": telethermometer. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Thermometer" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (thermometer), German (thermometer, thermometers).

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Modern Usage: Thermometer

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	A rear end thermometer too. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) It's pronounced thermometer. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Hmm maybe we should slide in the thermometer and take a readin'. (American Gothic; writing credit: Mariana Reyes; Doris Segu�)
Clever	What's the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer? The taste. (references; author: unknown)
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Commercial Usage: Thermometer

Domain	Title
Books	A History of the Thermometer and Its Uses in Meteorology (reference) About the thermometer (reference) Educational Thermometer (Mb9385) (reference) Way We Are: The Community College As American Thermometer (reference) (more book examples)

High Tech	High Gear Traildrop II Digital Compass and Thermometer (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Hospital's Choice 10-Second Thermometer with Flex Tip (reference) Accu-Scan Instant Ear Thermometer (reference) Taylor Analog Instant-Read Dial Thermometer (reference) Dr. Friedrichs Gruppe Wine Thermometer In Wooden Mahogany Gift Case (reference) Exergen TemporalScanner Temporal Artery Thermometer (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
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Image Slideshow: Thermometer

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Photo Album: Thermometer

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	"Dr. Wilson and Lieut. Bowers reading the ramp thermometer in the winter night, -40 Fahr. (A flashlight photograph.) In: "Scott's Last Expedition ....", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. Volume I. Page 221.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Figure 1 in: Traittez de barometres, thermometres, et notiometres, ou hygrometres, by Joachim d'Alence, d. 1707? Published in 1688. A decorative thermometer. Library Call Number QC876 .A44 1688.Credit: Treasures of the Library.
	"Birdie" Bowers reading the thermometer on the ramp, June 6th, 1911. In: "Scott's Last Expedition", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York. P. 214. Vol. I. Library Call Number G850 1910 .S35 1913.Credit: Treasures of the Library.		Anemometer, thermometer, current drag, sextant, and carbonic acid apparatus. In: "The Voyage of H. M. S. CHALLENGER A Summary....", Part I, p. xxxi. Library Call Number Q115.C4 1880 summary pt. 1.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Deep-sea sounding lead, thermometer, and water bottle.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Tech. Sgt. Dan Stevens, 411th Flight Test Squadron, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., uses a non-contact infrared thermometer while curing the coating on an F-22 Raptor. To ensure Edwards AFB continues flight-testing large programs such as the F-22, the.
	A Moral and Physical Thermometer.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Moral Thermometer.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Interior of the wet slips, with USS Bailey (DD-269, builder's Hull # 349) fitting out in the center. The less-advanced hull to the right may be USS Morris (DD-271). Of the ships represented on the "thermometer" progress chart at left, Hulls 346-348 -- Greene (DD-266), Ballard (DD-267) and Shubrick (DD-268) -- were completing outdoors at this time and Hull 345, USS Edwards (DD-265), had been commissioned on 24 April. Photographed between 27 April and 3 May 1919 by Monks & Johnson, Boston, Mass.Credit: NAVY.		Recording thermometer charts at oil refinery. Seminole, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Use in Literature: Thermometer

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	The Professor pocketed his thermometer in a moment, clasped his hands, and put his head on one side with a meek smile.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It may be said that poverty and public wealth have an infallible thermometer in the cost of the collection of the taxes.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Thermometer

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Because ground beef can turn brown before disease-causing bacteria are killed, use a digital instant-read meat thermometer to ensure thorough cooking. (references)
		Use a thermometer to be sure! Foods are properly cooked only when they are heated long enough and at a high enough temperature to kill the harmful bacteria that cause illness. (references)
		Ground beef should be cooked until a thermometer inserted into several parts of the patty, including the thickest part, reads at least 160� F. Persons who cook ground beef without using a thermometer can decrease their risk of illness by not eating ground beef patties that are still pink in the middle. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Thermometer

"Thermometer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.84% of the time. "Thermometer" is used about 146 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	93.84%	137	27,138
Adjective (comparative)	5.48%	8	124,375
Noun (proper)	0.68%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	146	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Thermometer

Expressions using "thermometer": adjustment of thermometer ♦ Air thermometer ♦ alcohol thermometer ♦ Balance thermometer ♦ Beckman thermometer ♦ candy thermometer ♦ celsius thermometer ♦ centigrade thermometer ♦ clinical thermometer ♦ Differential thermometer ♦ distant reading thermometer ♦ electric thermometer ♦ fahrenheit thermometer ♦ gas thermometer ♦ maximum and minimum thermometer ♦ Maximum thermometer ♦ meat thermometer ♦ mercury thermometer ♦ metallic thermometer ♦ minimum thermometer ♦ oven thermometer ♦ platinum thermometer ♦ Reaumur thermometer ♦ recording thermometer ♦ register thermometer ♦ remote reading thermometer ♦ resistance thermometer ♦ reversing thermometer ♦ soil thermometer ♦ Stevenson's thermometer shelter ♦ the thermometer reads 30 grade ♦ thermoelectric thermometer ♦ upsetting thermometer ♦ water thermometer ♦ wet bulb thermometer. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "thermometer": thermometer-reading.
	Ending with "thermometer": barometer-thermometer, tele-thermometer.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thermometer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
thermometer	1,227	barbecue thermometer	33
digital thermometer	261	forehead thermometer	33
outdoor thermometer	212	laser thermometer	31
galileo thermometer	171	bimetal thermometer	30
infrared thermometer	146	cooking thermometer	30
ear thermometer	122	art clip thermometer	27
wireless thermometer	118	remote thermometer	26
indoor outdoor thermometer	87	calibration of thermometer	24
rectal thermometer	82	industrial thermometer	24
meat thermometer	77	buy digital thermometer	24
barbecue buy thermometer	74	ir thermometer	23
love thermometer	70	infrared ear thermometer	23
thermometer picture	65	oven thermometer	22
outdoor clock and thermometer	62	digital meat thermometer	22
basal thermometer	62	clipart thermometer	21
taylor thermometer	60	food thermometer	21
mercury thermometer	56	polder thermometer	21
grill thermometer	36	braun thermometer	20
pool thermometer	36	basal body thermometer	20
omron ear thermometer	36	candy thermometer	20
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Modern Translations: Thermometer

Language		Translations for "thermometer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		termometër, gradë (degree, grade, level, notch, rank, rating, stripe). (various references)

Arabic		‏ميزان الحرارة, ‏مقياس الحرارة. (various references)

Bulgarian		топломер (calorimeter), термометър. (various references)

Catalan		termòmetre. (various references)

Chinese		温度计 (thermometric, Thermometrical). (various references)

Czech		teplomìr. (various references)

Danish		termometer (thermowell). (various references)

Dutch		thermometer, warmtemeter (calorimeter). (various references)

Esperanto		termometro. (various references)

Farsi		میزان الحراره , گرمانما, دماسنج , درجه (Alloy, Degree, Gauge, Gradation, Grade, Length, Mark, Measure, Peg, Point, Proportion, Stair, Step). (various references)

Finnish		lämpömittari. (various references)

French		thermomètre. (various references)

Frisian		termometer. (various references)

German		Thermometer (thermometers). (various references)

Greek		θερμόμετρο. (various references)

Hebrew		מ�" חום, תרמומטר. (various references)

Hungarian		lázmérõ, lázmérô, hõmérõ (thermograph). (various references)

Italian		termometro. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		温度計 , サーボ機構 (cermet, cum, cycasin, cycle, cyclic, cycling, cycling course, cyclist, psi, psychics, salmon, salmon pink, science, science fiction, scientific, scientist, scientology, Searle, semen, servomechanism, sialon, sirloin, sirloin steak, sperm, thermal printer, thermistor, thermoconcrete, thermoelement, thermostat, thiabendazole), �'暖計 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		お�"どけい, か�"� �"けい, サーモメーター . (various references)

Korean		온도계 (thermometric, Thermometrical). (various references)

Manx		gless chiass, chiassveih. (various references)

Pig Latin		ermometerthay

Portuguese		termômetro. (various references)

Romanian		termometru. (various references)

Russian		термометр, градусник. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		toplomer, termometar. (various references)

Spanish		termómetro (thermowell), termometro. (various references)

Swedish		termometer. (various references)

Turkish		termometre (clinical thermometer). (various references)

Turkmen		termometr (r). (various references)

Ukranian		термометр. (various references)

Vietnamese		nhiệt biểu, cái đo nhiệt. (various references)

Welsh		thermomedr. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Thermometer

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	thermos. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Thermometer

Derivations
	Words beginning with "thermometer": thermometers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Thermometer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Thermocet, thermomater. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Thermometer"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "thermometer" (pronounced thermÄ"muter)
6	-m Ä" m u t er	anemometer.
5	-Ä" m u t er	accelerometer, barometer, densitometer, fluorometer, goniometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, interferometer, kilometer, magnetometer, micrometer, odometer, photometer, spectrometer, speedometer, tensiometer.
4	-m u t er	altimeter, diameter, estimator, parameter, perimeter, polarimeter.
3	-u t er	Amphitheater, arbiter, auditor, capacitor, catheter, comparator, competitor, conservator, conspirator, contributor, creditor, depositor, distributor, editor, elater, executor, exhibitor, inheritor, inhibitor, inquisitor, interlocutor, interpreter, janitor, marketer, monitor, orator, orbiter, picketer, predator, progenitor, proprietor, quieter, rioter, Sen, senator, sequitur, solicitor, telemarketer, Theater, theatre, trumpeter, visitor.
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Anagrams: Thermometer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-m-m-o-r-r-t-t"
	-2 letters: rheometer.
	-3 letters: ohmmeter.
	-4 letters: remoter, teether, theorem, thereto.
	-5 letters: emoter, hemmer, hereto, hetero, hotter, meeter, meteor, mother, remeet, remote, retore, retort, rhetor, rotter, teemer, teeter, teethe, terete, termer, termor, terret, tether, therme, tother, tremor.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-m-m-o-r-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: thermometers.
	+2 letters: thermometries.
	+3 letters: thermoremanent.
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