thermometer

See also: Thermometer

English

Alternative forms

• thermometre (nonstandard)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /θɚˈmɑmɪtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θəˈmɒmɪtə/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: ther‧mom‧e‧ter
• Rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

thermometer (plural thermometers)

1. An apparatus used to measure temperature.
   • 1835, John Ross, James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pages 284-5:

     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.

   • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi":

     The brothers had thrust the thermometer between two circuit boards in order to look for hot spots inside m zero. The thermometer’s dial was marked “Beef Rare—Ham—Beef Med—Pork.” “You want to keep the machine below ‘Pork,’” Gregory remarked.

Derived terms

• absolute thermometer
• adjustable contact
• air thermometer
• air-temperature thermometer
• alcohol thermometer
• auxiliary thermometer
• bath thermometer
• Beckmann differential thermometer
• Beckmann thermometer
• bi-metal mechanical thermometer
• bimetallic stem thermometer
• bimetallic thermometer
• bulb of a thermometer
• calibrate a thermometer
• calibrated thermometer
• candy thermometer
• capillary thermometer
• Celsius thermometer
• Celsius' thermometer
• Celsius's thermometer
• Centigrade thermometer
• centigrade thermometer
• clinical thermometer
• constant pressure air thermometer
• constant pressure thermometer
• constant volume air thermometer
• constant volume gas thermometer
• constant volume thermometer
• constant-pressure thermometer
• constant-volume thermometer
• contact thermometer
• Coulomb Blockade Thermometer
• Delisle thermometer
• Delisle's thermometer
• dial thermometer
• differential thermometer
• digital thermometer
• direct-reading thermometer
• ear thermometer
• electronic registering thermometer
• electronic thermometer
• empirical thermometer
• ethanol-filled thermometer
• Fahrenheit thermometer
• Fahrenheit's thermometer
• fever thermometer
• filament thermometer
• film thermometer
• freezer thermometer
• fridge thermometer
• Galilean thermometer
• Galileo thermometer
• Galileo's thermometer
• geothermometer
• glass thermometer
• Hauksbee thermometer
• Hauksbee's thermometer
• infrared thermometer
• kata thermometer
• Kata thermometer
• kerosene thermometer
• kerosene-filled thermometer
• Linnaeus thermometer
• Linnaeus' thermometer
• Linnaeus's thermometer
• liquid crystal thermometer
• liquid-in-glass thermometer
• magnetic thermometer
• maximum and minimum thermometer
• maximum minimum thermometer
• maximum thermometer
• maximum-minimum thermometer
• meat thermometer
• mechanical registering thermometer
• medical centigrade thermometer
• medical thermometer
• mercurial thermometer
• mercury thermometer
• mercury-filled thermometer
• mercury-in-glass thermometer
• minimum and maximum thermometer
• minimum maximum thermometer
• minimum thermometer
• minimum-maximum thermometer
• nanothermometer
• non-registering thermometer
• oven thermometer
• palaeothermometer
• paleothermometer
• patio thermometer
• pill thermometer
• platinum resistance thermometer
• pocket thermometer
• primary thermometer
• protected thermometer
• read the thermometer
• Reaumur thermometer
• Réaumur thermometer
• Reaumur's thermometer
• Réaumur's thermometer
• recording thermometer
• reference thermometer
• registering thermometer
• remote-reading thermometer
• resistance thermometer
• reversing thermometer
• secondary thermometer
• self-registering thermometer
• Six's maximum and minimum thermometer
• Six's thermometer
• spirit thermometer
• spirit-filled thermometer
• standard thermometer
• steel-tube mercury thermometer
• sugar thermometer
• telethermometer
• the thermometer is pointing to 7 degrees
• the thermometer shows 100 degrees
• thermometer bulb
• thermometer code
• thermometer column
• thermometer reading
• thermometer scale
• thermometer temperature reading
• toluene-filled thermometer
• turnover-thermometer
• unprotected reversing thermometer
• unprotected thermometer
• upsetting thermometer
• vapor pressure thermometer
• vapour pressure thermometer
• wet-bulb thermometer
• wine thermometer
• wire-wound thermometer

 

Related terms

• thermistors
• thermocouple
• thermometric
• thermometrical
• thermometrically
• thermometry
• thermoscope
• thermostat

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: থার্মমিটার (tharmômiṭar), থার্মোমিটার (tharmōmiṭar)

Translations

apparatus used to measure temperature

• Afrikaans: termometer
• Albanian: termometr m
• Arabic: تِرْمُومِتْر‎ m (tirmumitr), مِقْيَاس الْحَرَارَة‎ (ar) m (miqyās al-ḥarāra), مِيزَان الْحَرَارَة‎ (ar) m (mīzān al-ḥarāra)
• Armenian: ջերմաչափ (hy) (ǰermačʿapʿ)
• Azerbaijani: i̇stilikölçən, termometr
• Basque: termometro (eu)
• Belarusian: тэрмо́метр m (termómjetr), тэрмо́мэтар m (termómetar), гра́дуснік m (hrádusnik) (for measuring body temperature)
• Bengali: থার্মোমিটার (bn) (tharmōmiṭar), থার্মমিটার (bn) (tharmômiṭar), উষ্মমাপক (uśmômapôk)
• Breton: gwrezverker (br) m
• Bulgarian: термоме́тър m (termométǎr), топломе́р m (toplomér)
• Burmese: သာမိုမီတာ (my) (samuimita)
• Catalan: termòmetre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溫度計／温度计 (zh) (wēndùjì), 溫度錶／温度表 (zh) (wēndùbiǎo), 寒暑錶／寒暑表 (zh) (hánshǔbiǎo), 體溫錶／体温表 (zh) (tǐwēnbiǎo) (for measuring body temperature)

• Chukchi: омтэнмычъын (omtėnmyčʺyn)
• Crimean Tatar: sıcaqölçer, termometr
• Czech: teploměr (cs) m
• Danish: termometer (da) n
• Dutch: thermometer (nl) m, warmtemeter (nl) m
• Esperanto: termometro (eo)
• Estonian: kraadiklaas
• Faroese: hitamálari m, hitamátari m, fepurstokkur m (clinical )
• Finnish: lämpömittari (fi), kuumemittari (fi) (for measuring body temperature)
• French: thermomètre (fr) m
• Georgian: თერმომეტრი (termomeṭri)
• German: Thermometer (de) n or m, Wärmemesser m, Temperaturmesser (de) m
• Greek: θερμόμετρο (el) n (thermómetro)
• Guaraní: mba'epytu ra'ãha
• Gujarati: ઉષ્ણતામાપક (uṣṇatāmāpak), તાપમાપક (tāpmāpak)
• Hebrew: מַדְחֹם‎ (he) (madḥóm)
• Hindi: तापमापी (tāpmāpī), थर्मामीटर (hi) m (tharmāmīṭar)
• Hungarian: hőmérő (hu), lázmérő (hu) (for measuring body temperature)
• Icelandic: hitamælir (is) m
• Indonesian: pengukur suhu (id), termometer (id)
• Interlingua: thermometro
• Irish: teirmiméadar m
• Italian: termometro (it) m
• Japanese: 温度計 (ja) (おんどけい, ondokei), 体温計 (ja) (たいおんけい, taionkei) (for measuring body temperature)
• Javanese: ꦠꦺꦂꦩꦺꦴꦩꦺꦠꦼꦂ (térmométer)
• Kannada: ಉಷ್ಣಮಾಪಕ (kn) (uṣṇamāpaka)
• Kazakh: термометр (kk) (termometr)
• Khmer: កែវស្ទង់កំដៅ (kaew stŭəng kɑmdaw)
• Korean: 온도계(溫度計) (ko) (ondogye), 체온계(體溫計) (ko) (che'on'gye) (for measuring body temperature)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: têhnpîv

• Kyrgyz: термометр (termometr)
• Lao: ບາຫລອດ (bā lǭt), ບາຫຼອດ (bā lǭt), ເຄື່ອງແທກອຸນນະພູມ (khư̄ang thǣk ʼun na phūm)
• Latin: thermometrum n
• Latvian: termometrs m
• Lithuanian: termometras (lt) m
• Macedonian: термоме́тар m (termométar), топломер m (toplomer)
• Malay: jangka suhu, termometer
• Malayalam: താപമാപിനി (tāpamāpini), ഉഷ്ണമാപിനി (ml) (uṣṇamāpini)
• Manx: tempreilyssane
• Maori: ine-mahana
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: термометр (termometr), халууны шил (xaluuny šil), дулааны хэмжүүр (dulaany xemžüür)

  Mongolian: ᠲᠧᠷᠮᠣᠮᠧᠲ᠋ᠷ (tērmomētr), ᠬᠠᠯᠠᠭᠤᠨ ᠦ
  ᠰᠢᠯ (qalaɣun-ü sil), ᠳᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠦ
  ᠬᠡᠮᠵᠢᠭᠦᠷ (dulaɣan-ü kemǰigür)

• Navajo: hadoh dóó hakʼaz neiłkidígíí
• Nepali: तापमापी (tāpmāpī)
• Norman: thèrmomètre m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: termometer n, gradestokk m

  Nynorsk: termometer n, gradestokk m

• Okinawan: 寒暖計 (かんだんちー, kandanchī)
• Pali: uṇha-māṇaka n
• Pashto: ترماميټر‎ (tarmāmiṭar), تودښمېچ‎ m (towdǝx̌meč), ميزان الحراره‎ f (mizān ol-harāra)
• Persian: دماسنج‎ (fa) (damâ-sanj), ترمامیتر‎ (tarmâmitar) (Dari)
• Plautdietsch: Grodglauss n
• Polish: termometr (pl) m
• Portuguese: termômetro (pt) m
• Romanian: termometru (ro) n
• Russian: термо́метр (ru) m (termómetr), гра́дусник (ru) m (grádusnik) (for measuring body temperature)
• Scottish Gaelic: teas-mheidh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: то̏пломе̄р m, то̏пломје̄р m, те̏рмометар m

  Roman: tȍplomēr m, tȍplomjēr (sh) m, tȅrmometar (sh) m

• Slovak: teplomer m
• Slovene: toplomér m
• Southern Ndebele: isimedimtjhiso
• Spanish: termómetro (es) m
• Sundanese: ᮒᮦᮁᮙᮧᮙᮦᮒᮨᮁ (térmométer)
• Swahili: kipimajoto (sw)
• Swazi: silinganisi kushisa
• Swedish: termometer (sv) c
• Tagalog: initsukat, initsukod, panigi, initbutod, termometro (tl)
• Tajik: термометр (tg) (termometr), ҳароратсанҷ (haroratsanj), дамосанҷ (damosanj)
• Tamil: வெப்பமானி (ta) (veppamāṉi)
• Telugu: ఉష్ణమాపకం (te) (uṣṇamāpakaṁ)
• Thai: เครื่องวัดอุณหภูมิ (krʉ̂ʉang-wát-un-hà-puum), เทอร์มอมิเตอร์ (təə-mɔɔ-mí-dtə̂ə)
• Tibetan: དྲོ་གྲང་ལྟ་ཆས (dro grang lta chas)
• Tigrinya: ተርሞሜተር (tärmometär)
• Turkish: sıcaklıkölçer (tr), termometre (tr)
• Turkmen: termometr
• Ukrainian: тепломі́р m (teplomír), термо́метр m (termómetr), гра́дусник m (hrádusnyk) (for measuring body temperature)
• Urdu: ترمامیٹر‎ m (tarmāmīṭar)
• Uyghur: تېرمومېتىر‎ (tërmomëtir)
• Uzbek: termometr (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhiệt kế (vi)
• Volapük: tärmomet (vo)
• Welsh: tymeriadur m
• Yiddish: טערמאָמעטער‎ m (termometer)
• Zulu: isikalakushisa

See also

• barometer
• hygrometer
• temperature sensor
• temperature gun

Anagrams

• thermometre

Dutch

Etymology

From thermo- +‎ meter.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ther‧mo‧me‧ter

Noun

thermometer m (plural thermometers, diminutive thermometertje n)

1. thermometer

Descendants

• → Indonesian: termometer