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Thermometer vs Telethermometer - What's the difference?

thermometer | telethermometer |

As nouns the difference between thermometer and telethermometer

is that thermometer is an apparatus used to measure temperature while telethermometer is an apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.

thermometer

Alternative forms

* thermometre (nonstandard)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An apparatus used to measure temperature.
  • * 1835 , , (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.

    Derived terms

    * absolute thermometer * adjustable contact * air-temperature thermometer * air thermometer * alcohol thermometer * auxiliary thermometer * bath thermometer * Beckmann differential thermometer * Beckmann thermometer * bimetallic stem thermometer * bimetallic thermometer * bi-metal mechanical thermometer * bulb of a thermometer * calibrate a thermometer * calibrated thermometer * capillary thermometer * Celsius's thermometer * Celsius thermometer * Celsius' thermometer * Centigrade thermometer, centigrade thermometer * clinical thermometer * constant pressure air thermometer * constant pressure thermometer, constant-pressure thermometer * constant volume air thermometer * constant volume gas thermometer * constant volume thermometer, constant-volume thermometer * contact thermometer * Coulomb Blockade Thermometer (CBT) * Delisle's thermometer * Delisle thermometer * dial thermometer * digital thermometer * differential thermometer * direct-reading thermometer * ear thermometer * electronic registering thermometer * electronic thermometer * empirical thermometer * ethanol-filled thermometer * Fahrenheit's thermometer * Fahrenheit thermometer * fever thermometer * filament thermometer * film thermometer * freezer thermometer * fridge thermometer * Galilean thermometer * Galileo's thermometer * Galileo thermometer * glass thermometer * Hauksbee's thermometer * Hauksbee thermometer * infrared thermometer * kerosene-filled thermometer * kerosene thermometer * Linnaeus's thermometer * Linnaeus thermometer * Linnaeus' thermometer * liquid crystal thermometer * liquid-in-glass thermometer * maximum and minimum thermometer * maximum thermometer * maximum-minimum thermometer, maximum minimum thermometer * meat thermometer * mechanical registering thermometer * medical centigrade thermometer * medical thermometer * mercurial thermometer * mercury-filled thermometer * mercury-in-glass thermometer * mercury thermometer * minimum and maximum thermometer * minimum thermometer * minimum-maximum thermometer, minimum maximum thermometer * non-registering thermometer * oven thermometer * patio thermometer * pill thermometer * platinum resistance thermometer (PRT) * pocket thermometer * primary thermometer * protected thermometer * read the thermometer * , Reaumur's thermometer * , Reaumur 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-filled thermometer * spirit thermometer * standard thermometer * steel-tube mercury thermometer * thermometer bulb * thermometer code * thermometer column * thermometer reading * thermometer scale * thermometer temperature reading * * * toluene-filled thermometer * turnover-thermometer * unprotected reversing thermometer * unprotected thermometer * vapor pressure thermometer * vapour pressure thermometer * wet-bulb thermometer * wine thermometer * wire-wound thermometer

    See also

    * barometer * hygrometer * temperature sensor ----

    telethermometer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.