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Thermometer vs Weatherglass - What's the difference?

thermometer | weatherglass |

As nouns the difference between thermometer and weatherglass

is that thermometer is thermometer while weatherglass is an instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, such as a barometer or baroscope.

thermometer

English

(wikipedia 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

    Related terms

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

    See also

    * barometer * hygrometer * temperature sensor ----

    weatherglass

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, especially changes of atmospheric pressure, and hence changes of weather, such as a barometer or baroscope.

    • Derived terms

    * poor man's weatherglass (Webster 1913)