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Webster 1913 Edition


Thermoscope

Ther′mo-scope

,
Noun.
[
Thermo-
+
-scope
.]
(Physics)
An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by
Count Rumford
which, as modified by
Professor Leslie
, was afterward called the
differential thermometer
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Thermoscope

THER'MOSCOPE

,
Noun.
[Gr. heat, and to see.] An instrument showing the temperature of the air, or the degree of heat and cold.

Definition 2024


thermoscope

thermoscope

English

Noun

thermoscope (plural thermoscopes)

  1. A scientific instrument that measures the changes in temperature.

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