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MERCURY THERMOMETER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube
Synonyms:
mercury-in-glass thermometer; mercury thermometer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("mercury thermometer" is a kind of...):
thermometer (measuring instrument for measuring temperature)
Meronyms (parts of "mercury thermometer"):
bulb (a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mercury thermometer"):
Beckman thermometer (a mercury thermometer that measures small differences or changes in temperature)
clinical thermometer; mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer (a mercury thermometer designed to measure the temperature of the human body; graduated to cover a range a few degrees on either side of the normal body temperature)
