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Thermometer

//θɚˈmɒmɪtɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An apparatus used to measure temperature.

    "Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction."

  2. 2
    measuring instrument for measuring temperature wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French thermomètre; equivalent to thermo- + -meter.

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