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Thermometer Common

Origin: Greek prefix thermo-

Thermometer has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

measuring instrument for measuring temperature

"She quickly took the baby's temperature with a digital thermometer before putting him back down for his nap."

2

An apparatus used to measure temperature.

"The doctor handed me a thermometer to check my fever before leaving for work."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
measuring instrument
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
alcohol thermometer candy thermometer Centigrade thermometer cryometer dry-bulb thermometer Fahrenheit thermometer gas thermometer maximum and minimum thermometer meat thermometer mercury thermometer oven thermometer pyrometer Reaumur thermometer resistance thermometer reversing thermometer self-registering thermometer telethermometer thermocouple thermoelectric thermometer thermograph thermopile wet-bulb thermometer

Origin

The word thermometer comes from French, where it combines the prefix thermo- with -meter. It originally referred to an instrument for measuring heat.

Rhyming Words
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