单词 | mercury-in-glass thermometer |
释义 | mercury-in-glass thermometer (once / 11819311 pages) n WORD FAMILY mercury-in-glass thermometer USAGE EXAMPLESThis amounted to a discussion of the scale of an ordinary mercury-in-glass thermometer, a subject concerning which erroneous statements are not infrequently made in text-books. Gray, Andrew, Lord Kelvin—An account of his scien...(2012) n thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube Syn|Hypo|Hyper mercury thermometer Beckman thermometer a mercury thermometer that measures small differences or changes in temperature clinical thermometer, mercury-in-glass clinical thermometera mercury thermometer designed to measure the temperature of the human body; graduated to cover a range a few degrees on either side of the normal body temperature thermometer measuring instrument for measuring temperature |
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