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Definition: Therm |
ThermNoun1. A unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Energy | One hundred thousand (100,000) British thermalunits (1 therm = 100,000 Btu). (references) |
| A unit of heat containing 100,000 British thermal units (Btu). (references) | |
Meteorology & Standards | In the International System, heat is measured in joules; it is the quantity of heat "equivalent" to an energy of one joule. But in the British System, the British Thermal Unit is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one 1b of water through the Fahrenheit degree:1 BTU = 1055 J = 0, 252 kcal. The term which equals 100, 000 BTU is consequently different from the french "thermie";1 therm(GB)= 25, 2 thermies(France). Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Equals 100,000 Btu (105,500 kJ). (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heat | Calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie; kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie; British Thermal Unit, B.T.U.; therm, quad. |
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Crosswords: Therm |
| Specialty definitions using "therm": evacuated insulation ♦ vacuum insulation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Therm" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (thermal spring), Swedish (therm). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Figure 64. N.I.O. bottle designed by Francis E. Pierce, Dennis I. Gaunt, and Richard Dobson at the National Institute of Oceanography at Grand-Bretagne. This utilized a valve for closing but also inverted. The mounting for the therm ometer toppled over by the action of a spring. This bottle was used by the DISC OVERY II in the Gulf of Gascogne at 4700 meters.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Therm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Therm" is used about 4 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) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "therm": Therm-a-rest, therm-a-rest'r, Therm-a-stor, therm-knife. | |
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| 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 |
duo therm | 145 | hydro therm | 4 |
therm a rest | 63 | therm a rest ultralite | 4 |
therm | 37 | convertor therm | 4 |
disc o therm | 19 | therm x | 4 |
duo therm air conditioner | 18 | bind therm | 3 |
capresso elegance therm | 14 | tec therm | 3 |
duo therm part | 10 | cat cool duo therm | 3 |
aqua therm | 9 | mattress rest therm | 3 |
delta therm | 9 | ac duo therm | 3 |
gluco therm | 8 | boiler hydro therm | 3 |
super therm | 6 | duo heat pump therm | 3 |
therm o web | 6 | therm guard | 3 |
duo furnace therm | 6 | conversion therm | 3 |
ac duo part therm | 5 | therm a rest guidelite | 3 |
electro therm | 5 | chroma therm | 3 |
plasma therm | 4 | dometic duo therm | 2 |
o therm type | 4 | c duo therm | 2 |
gas natural therm | 4 | coil therm | 2 |
duo therm rv air conditioner | 4 | duro therm | 2 |
therm trol x | 4 | dou therm | 2 |
therm zyto | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "therm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | term (term, word). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الثرم وحدة لمقدار الحرارة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | терм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | therm, joule (British Thermal Unit, cal, calorie, joule, th). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | معادل هزارکالری بزرگ , کالری کوچک , گرما (Heat), واحدگرما, حمام عمومی , حمام (Bathroom, Washroom), داغ (Brand, Hot, Mark, Stain, Stigma, Sultry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kalori (British Thermal Unit, cal, calorie, joule, th), Joule (British Thermal Unit, cal, calorie, joule, th), J (British Thermal Unit, calorie, joule), cal (British Thermal Unit, cal, calorie, conversational algebraic language, joule, th), BTU (british thermal unit, calorie, joule), brittiläinen lämpömääräyksikkö (British Thermal Unit, cal, calorie, joule, th). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | thermie (British Thermal Unit, th). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Therm (thermal spring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | therm (British Thermal Unit, cal, calorie, joule, th), joule (British Thermal Unit, cal, calorie, joule, th), J (British Thermal Unit, calorie, joule), θέρμη (ardour, fervor, fervour, fever), θερμίς (British Thermal Unit, cal, calorie, joule, th), θερμίδα = 425 αμυλομονάδες, cal (British Thermal Unit, cal, calorie, joule, th), BTU (british thermal unit, calorie, joule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | meleg fürdõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | therm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cherm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermthay termo (district, end, expiratory, explain, finish, limit, omelet, stop, surcease, tail end, term, termination, thermos flask, vacuum bottle, vacuum lask, windup, word), unidade de calor (calorie), joule (British Thermal Unit, cal, calorie, joule, jounce, th). (various references) терм (term, therms). (various references) toplotna jedinica. (various references) termo (cistern, Dewar flask, flask, thermos, thermosbottle, thermosflask, vaccum flask, vacuum bottle, vacuum flask), termia. (various references) therm, kalori (British Thermal Unit, cal, calorie, calory, joule, th), joule (British Thermal Unit, cal, calorie, joule, th). (various references) kalori (calorie, calory), ısı birimi (calorie, calory, heat unit). (various references) терм, лазня (bagnio, balneary, bath, bath house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "therm": thermae, thermal, thermalization, thermalizations, thermalize, thermalized, thermalizes, thermalizing, thermally, thermals, therme, thermel, thermels, thermes, thermic, thermically, thermion, thermionic, thermionics, thermions, thermistor, thermistors, thermite, thermites, thermochemical, thermochemist, thermochemistries, thermochemistry, thermochemists, thermocline, thermoclines, thermocouple, thermocouples, thermoduric, thermodynamic, thermodynamical, thermodynamically, thermodynamicist, thermodynamicists, thermodynamics, thermoelectric, thermoelectricities, thermoelectricity, thermoelement, thermoelements, thermoform, thermoformable, thermoformed, thermoforming, thermoforms, thermogram. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "therm": ectotherm, endotherm, homeotherm, homoiotherm, isotherm, poikilotherm, stenotherm. (additional references) | |
Words containing "therm": aerothermodynamic, aerothermodynamics, bathythermograph, bathythermographs, diathermanous, diathermic, diathermies, diathermy, ectothermic, ectotherms, electrothermal, electrothermally, endothermic, endothermies, endotherms, endothermy, eurythermal, eurythermic, eurythermous, exothermal, exothermally, exothermic, exothermically, exothermicities, exothermicity, farthermost, furthermore, furthermost, geothermal, geothermally, hithermost, homeothermic, homeothermies, homeotherms, homeothermy, homoiothermic, homoiotherms, hydrothermal, hydrothermally, hyperthermia, hyperthermias, hyperthermic, hypothermal, hypothermia, hypothermias, hypothermic, isothermal, isothermally, isotherms, nethermost, nonthermal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "therm" (pronounced ther"m) |
| 2 | -er" m | affirm, berm, confirm, firm, germ, Herm, infirm, reaffirm, reconfirm, sperm, squirm, term, worm. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-m-r-t" | |
-1 letter: herm, meth, term, them. | |
-2 letters: eth, hem, her, het, met, rem, ret, the. | |
-3 letters: eh, em, er, et, he, hm, me, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-m-r-t" | |
+1 letter: hermit, mither, mother, therme, therms. | |
+2 letters: chetrum, hamster, hermits, matcher, mithers, mothers, mothery, mothier, mouther, murther, mythier, rematch, smother, teraohm, theorem, thermae, thermal, thermel, thermes, thermic, thermos, thumper, thymier, vermuth. | |
+3 letters: atheroma, chetrums, chromate, chromite, comether, earthman, earthmen, erethism, erythema, eurythmy, hamsters, hatmaker, hemipter, hermetic, hermitic, hermitry, homeport, isotherm, matchers, merchant, metaphor, mightier, misthrew, mothered, motherly, mouthers, mouthier, murthers, ohmmeter, outhomer, resmooth, rhematic, smithers, smithery, smoother, smothers, smothery, teraohms, teraphim, theorems, theremin, thermals, thermels, thermion, thermite, thrummed, thrummer, thumpers, trashmen, trichome, vermouth, vermuths. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 65 72 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .... . .-. -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h e r m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0065 0072 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5474718479 |
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