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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ther•mom•e•ter /θɚˈmɑmɪtɚ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Meteorology, Physicsan instrument for measuring temperature.
See -therm-, -meter-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ther•mom•e•ter (thər mom′i tər),USA pronunciation n. - Meteorology, Physicsan 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.
- 1615–25; thermo- + -meter
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