Synonyms:
thermometer
Meaning: measuring instrument for measuring temperature
Usage examples
This justified Davy's theory, and more than once I consulted the thermometer with surprise.
When Captain Parry was on Melville Island, he knew the thermometer to fall to 56 degrees," said Procope.
He took his temperature with a little clinical thermometer he kept by him and found it was a hundred and one.
This Zeb Stump could tell with as much ease and certainty, as one might read the index of a dial, or thermometer.
Through late November and all December it snowed daily; the thermometer was at zero and might drop to twenty below, or thirty.
For protection he varies the number of his suits of underclothing, sometimes wearing three or four sets, according to the thermometer.
When it is raised to its highest temperature, with the doors closed, the thermometer stands at 350 degrees, and the iron floor is red hot.
If under these conditions a cloud floats overhead, forming a heat screen, its presence will be readily noticed by a rise in the thermometer.
Reduce to a temperature of one hundred and eight degrees with cold water, using a milk thermometer to enable you to get exactly the right temperature.
A range of twenty degrees is about all that the spirits in the thermometer ever show, for the minimum is seventy-two and the maximum ninety-two degrees.