an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale marked on the tube or its frame.
Look at a thermometer, and you’ll know a lot of what’s worth knowing about any sufficiently large number of molecules around you.
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This smart meat thermometer has two sensors in its single wireless probe—one for internal temperature up to 212 degrees Fahrenheit and another for ambient temperature up to 527 degrees.
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Before entering the school, students and visitors have their temperature checked with a forehead-scanning thermometer.
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In a straightforward race down the thermometer, the hot object would first have to reach the original temperature of the warm object, suggesting that a higher temperature could only add to the cooling time.
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The department even provides thermometers, following up with cases and contacts each day to ask about their temperature and symptoms.
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Turn the heat down to 325°F and continue cooking until internal temperature reads 140°F on a thermometer.
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It's almost impossible to read the thermometer of public opinion when it comes to LaBeouf's recent melt down/revelation.
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Every time the thermometer drops, another anti-science politician mocks climate change as a fallacy.
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Every government in Delhi keeps a thermometer in its holster and calibrates its decibel levels according to ground temperature.
Fortunately the day had been remarkably cool, almost cold, the thermometer only rose to 80° in the shade.
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The temperature remained very warm; on fine days the thermometer still stood at 20° or 22° Reaumur in the sun at noon.
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Still, I didn't stand before the thermometer to think things over.
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The shoulders are the thermometer of the sensitive and passional life.
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The sun pours its rays into the unclean streets, the thermometer registers eighty in the shade.
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British Dictionary definitions for thermometer
thermometer
/ (θəˈmɒmɪtə) /
noun
an instrument used to measure temperature, esp one in which a thin column of liquid, such as mercury, expands and contracts within a graduated sealed tubeSee also clinical thermometer, gas thermometer, resistance thermometer, thermocouple, pyrometer
An instrument used to measure temperature. There are many types of thermometers; the most common consist of a closed, graduated glass tube in which a liquid expands or contracts as the temperature increases or decreases. Other types of thermometers work by detecting changes in the volume or pressure of an enclosed gas or by registering thermoelectric changes in a conductor (such as a thermistor or thermocouple).