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PYROMETER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A thermometer designed to measure high temperatures
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pyrometer" is a kind of...):
thermometer (measuring instrument for measuring temperature)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pyrometer"):
optical pyrometer; pyroscope (a pyrometer that uses the color of the light emitted by a hot object)
pyrometric cone (a pyrometer consisting of a series of cones that melt at different temperatures)
radiation pyrometer (a pyrometer for estimating the temperature of distant sources of heat; radiation is focussed on a thermojunction connected in circuit with a galvanometer)
resistance pyrometer (pyrometer that measures high temperatures by the resistance in a heated wire)
