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Definition of Thermometers
1. thermometer [n] - See also: thermometer
Medical Definition of Thermometers
1. Instruments for determining temperatures. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thermometers
Literary usage of Thermometers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy by Francis Gano Benedict, Thorne Martin Carpenter (1910)
"thermometers. In connection with the calorimeter and the accessories, mercurial
and electric-resistance thermometers are employed. ..."
2. The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America: (The United States by United States Pharmacopoeial Convention (1820)
"Standard thermometers General Requirements.—The bulbs are to be of Jena 16 III
normal ... The thermometers are to have a pear-shaped reservoir at end of the ..."
3. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1890)
"If two mercurial thermometers, each of them constructed so as to have its degrees
rigorously equal in capacity, agree in their indications at all ..."
4. The Theory of Heat by Thomas Preston (1894)
"Gas thermometers. — The indications of mercury thermometers are complicated by
... In this respect thermometers filled with highly expansive organic liquids ..."
5. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Metal thermometers may also serve very well as maximum and minimum thermometers.
Against the finger which, is displaced by the movement of the metal spirals ..."
6. Smithsonian Physical Tables by Smithsonian Institution, Thomas Gray (1896)
"The smaller a is, the mure nearly will the thermometers agree at all points, and
there will ... As to some other thermometers experimented on by Regnault, ..."
7. The Theory of Heat by Thomas Preston (1894)
"In practice highly sensitive thermometers constructed of some chosen organic ...
In ordinary liquid-in-glass thermometers the expansion is noted by the rise ..."
8. Elements of Chemical Physics by Josiah Parsons Cooke (1873)
"Similar results were also obtained by M. Pierre, in his very extended investigation
of tbe expansion of liquids, during which he compared thermometers ..."
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