electrical thermometer

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• Thermometer — A clinical mercury in glass thermometer …   Wikipedia

• Thermometer — A device used to measure the temperature of gaseous, liquid or solid matter or of a chemical reaction such as fire. Temperature measurement is important to a wide range of activities, including industry, scientific research, and health care. In… …   Medical dictionary

• thermometer — thermometric /therr meuh me trik/, thermometrical, adj. thermometrically, adv. /theuhr mom i teuhr/, n. an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube that contains a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts,… …   Universalium

• thermocouple thermometer — Electrical instrument using thermocouple as source of electrical flow, connected to milliammeter calibrated in temperature degrees …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• Mercury-in-glass thermometer — Closeup of a maximum thermometer. The break in the column of mercury is visible. A mercury in glass thermometer, also known as a mercury thermometer, was invented by German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1724 and is a thermometer… …   Wikipedia

• Resistance thermometer — Resistance thermometers, also called resistance temperature detectors (RTDs), are temperature sensors that exploit the predictable change in electrical resistance of some materials with changing temperature. As they are almost invariably made of… …   Wikipedia

• Infrared thermometer — Infrared thermometers infer temperature using a portion of the thermal radiation sometimes called blackbody radiation emitted by the object of measurement. They are sometimes called laser thermometers if a laser is used to help aim the… …   Wikipedia

• resistance thermometer — noun thermometer that measures temperature by changes in the resistance of a spiral of platinum wire (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑platinum thermometer • Hypernyms: ↑thermometer * * * noun : a thermometer utilizing a wire as the thermoelectric element and… …   Useful english dictionary

• Balance thermometer — Balance Bal ance (b[a^]l ans), n. [OE. balaunce, F. balance, fr. L. bilanx, bilancis, having two scales; bis twice (akin to E. two) + lanx plate, scale.] 1. An apparatus for weighing. [1913 Webster] Note: In its simplest form, a balance consists… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• resistance thermometer — Metall. an instrument for measuring the temperature of a metal, utilizing the principle that the electrical resistance of the metal varies with the temperature. [1885 90] * * * …   Universalium

• resistance thermometer — noun Physics an instrument used to measure a change in temperature by its effect on the electrical resistance of a platinum or other metal wire …   English new terms dictionary