MERCURY THERMOMETER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mercury thermometer mean? 

• MERCURY THERMOMETER (noun)
  The noun MERCURY THERMOMETER has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: MERCURY THERMOMETER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MERCURY THERMOMETER (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

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

mercury-in-glass thermometer; mercury thermometer

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)