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    MERCURY THERMOMETER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     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 tubeplay

    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)

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