thermometer: Meaning and Definition of

ther•mom•e•ter

Pronunciation: (thur-mom'i-tur), [key]
— n.
  1. an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts, or rises and falls, with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale marked on the tube or its frame.
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