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Definition of Thermojunction
1. Noun. A junction between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears.
Definition of Thermojunction
1. n. A junction of two dissimilar conductors used to produce a thermoelectric current, as in one form of pyrometer; a thermocouple.
Definition of Thermojunction
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Medical Definition of Thermojunction
1. A device for measuring slight changes in temperature, consisting of two wires of different metals, one wire being kept at a certain low temperature, the other in the tissue or other material whose temperature is to be measured; a thermoelectric current is set up which is measured by a potentiometer. Synonym: thermojunction. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thermojunction
Literary usage of Thermojunction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony by John Ambrose Fleming (1916)
"If oscillations are passed through the constantan wire it is heated, and an EMF
is created in the thermojunction. This last is connected to a low-resistance ..."
2. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony by John Ambrose Fleming (1919)
"If oscillations are passed through the constantan wire it is heated, and an EMF
is created in the thermojunction. This last is connected to a low-resistance ..."
3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1904)
"The CHAIRMAN said that a thermopile had been used many years ago in a similar
way to that in which the thermojunction had been used by Mr. Duddell, ..."
4. Electric Arcs: Experiments Upon Arcs Between Different Electrodes in Various by Clement Dexter Child (1913)
"Nothing would seem simpler than to insert a thermometer or thermojunction in the
mercury vapor and observe its temperature. There are, indeed, several who ..."
5. Electric Arcs: Experiments Upon Arcs Between Different Electrodes in Various by Clement Dexter Child (1913)
"Nothing would seem simpler than to insert a thermometer or thermojunction in the
mercury vapor and observe its temperature. There are, indeed, several who ..."
6. Page's Engineering Weekly (1904)
"By this means about 2 in. of the thermojunction wires were immersed. These were
insulated from one another by a capillary procelain tube through which one ..."
7. Popular Science Monthly (1914)
"... a fluorite window, Fr and is brought to focus upon the receiver, E, of the
thermocouple- where the rays are absorbed thus heating the thermojunction. ..."
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