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Definition of Thermoscope
1. n. An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.
Definition of Thermoscope
1. Noun. A scientific instrument that measures the changes in temperature. ¹
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Definition of Thermoscope
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Thermoscope
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thermoscope
Literary usage of Thermoscope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph by Th. Du Moncel (1879)
"When the instrument is properly regulated, speech can be reproduced by speaking
above the tube. It is therefore a microphone as well as a thermoscope. ..."
2. The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph by Th. Du Moncel (1879)
"It is therefore a microphone as well as a thermoscope. Mr. Hughes has remarked
one curious fact, namely, that if the different letters of the alphabet are ..."
3. Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia by Karl von Gebler (1879)
"The thermoscope. —Letter to Kepler.—The Copernican System.—"De Revolutionibus
Orbium Coelestium." THE same memorable day is marked by the setting of one of ..."
4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"... the air expanded in that bulb and drove the liquid in the stem towards the
other bulb : it was hence termed the differential thermometer or thermoscope, ..."
5. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatises on the Principles of by William Somerville Orr (1856)
"The thermoscope of Nobili.—By far the most delicate indicator of minute increments
and decrements of ... The electrical thermoscope of Nobili admits Fig. ..."
6. Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature by Edward Séguin (1876)
"THE CLINICAL thermoscope, An instrument of diagnosis in physic and surgery, ...
The clinical thermoscope is a glass tube T, a quarter of a line bore, ..."
7. First Principles of Physics: Or Natural Philosophy, Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1859)
"Rumford's thermoscope—At the same time that Leslie invented his differential
thermometer, Count Rumford, (otherwise Benjamin Thompson,) an American by birth ..."
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