| 单词 | air thermometer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasair thermometer air thermometer n. Physics (now chiefly historical) a thermometer which measures temperature by the expansion of a column of air. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > measurement of temperature > [noun] > instrument > other specific instruments air thermometer1701 water thermometer1725 gas thermometer1837 geothermometer1838 nepheloscope1844 thanatometer1860 resistance thermometer1861 reversing thermometer1878 telethermometer1880 thermocouple1890 thermo-electroscope1895 thermodynamometer1909 ebulliometer1933 1701 Philos. Trans. 1700–1 (Royal Soc.) 22 794 CD is the Air-Thermometer, graduated after the same manner, with the like Degrees. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. lii. 649 The thermometer first invented by Drebel was an air thermometer; but instruments of this kind..are properly called manometers, and require, for enabling us to employ them as thermometers, a comparison with the barometer. 1916 W. Kent Mech. Engineers' Pocket-bk. (ed. 9) 549 The mercurial thermometer made of common glass may be considered as sensibly coinciding with the air-thermometer at all temperatures not exceeding 500° F. 2002 Internat. Jrnl. Refrigeration 25 284/2 More than a hundred years later, in 1702, Guillaume Amontons improved the air thermometer and predicted for the first time the existence of an absolute zero. < as lemmas |
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