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pyrometer |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pyrometer \Py*rom"e*ter\, n. [Pyro- + -meter: cf F. pyrom[`e]tre.] 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. Note: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pyrometer n : a thermometer designed to measure high temperatures
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