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Webster 1913 Edition
Pyrometer
Py-rom′e-ter
,Noun.
[
Pyro-
+ -meter
: cf. F. pyromètre
.] 1.
(Physics)
An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.
2.
(Physics)
An instrument for measuring degrees of heat above those indicated by the mercurial thermometer.
☞ It is usually constructed so as to register the change which the heat to be measured produces in the length of some expansible substance, as a metallic rod, or in the intensity of a thermo-electric current.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pyrometer
PYROMETER
,Noun.
1.
An instrument for measuring the expansion of bodies by heat.2.
An instrument for measuring degrees of heat above those indicated by the mercurial thermometer; as the pyrometer of Wedgewood.Definition 2024
pyrometer
pyrometer
English
Noun
pyrometer (plural pyrometers)
- A thermometer designed to measure high temperatures.
- An instrument for measuring the thermal expansion of solids.
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Translations
thermometer
instrument for measuring the thermal expansion of solids