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thermometer

/ther-mom-i-ter/US // θərˈmɒm ɪ tər //UK // (θəˈmɒmɪtə) //

温度计,温度表,温湿度计,体温计

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n.名词 noun
  1. 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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Examples

  • Look at a thermometer, and you’ll know a lot of what’s worth knowing about any sufficiently large number of molecules around you.

  • This smart meat thermometer has two sensors in its single wireless probe—one for internal temperature up to 212 degrees Fahrenheit and another for ambient temperature up to 527 degrees.

  • Before entering the school, students and visitors have their temperature checked with a forehead-scanning thermometer.

  • In a straightforward race down the thermometer, the hot object would first have to reach the original temperature of the warm object, suggesting that a higher temperature could only add to the cooling time.

  • The department even provides thermometers, following up with cases and contacts each day to ask about their temperature and symptoms.

  • Turn the heat down to 325°F and continue cooking until internal temperature reads 140°F on a thermometer.

  • It's almost impossible to read the thermometer of public opinion when it comes to LaBeouf's recent melt down/revelation.

  • Every time the thermometer drops, another anti-science politician mocks climate change as a fallacy.

  • Most recently, in 2010, iPod creator Tony Fadell launched Nest, a smart thermometer that adjusts to your living habits.

  • If you have a cooking thermometer, cook until the temperature reaches 175 degrees.

  • One day in April the thermometer suddenly rose to eighteen above the freezing-point of Fahrenheit.

  • He is as sensitive to every change in ones voice as the thermometer is to changes in the atmosphere.

  • The warmth of the weather now began rapidly to increase; the thermometer at noon ranged as high as 79 degrees.

  • The thermometer now ranged between 87 and 89 degrees and the weather was consequently extremely oppressive and sultry.

  • The weather very cold, though the thermometer is at 56°, barometer 29–08; a very heavy swell.