Thermometerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• thermometre (nonstandard)

語源

Borrowed from French thermomètre; equivalent to thermo- +‎ -meter.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /θɚˈmɒmɪtɚ/, 韻: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
• (Indic) IPA: /t̪ʰə(r)ˈmɔmiʈə(r)/, /t̪ʰə(r)mo.miʈə(r)/
• ハイフネーション: ther‧mom‧e‧ter

名詞

thermometer (plural thermometers)

1. An apparatus used to measure temperature.
   • 1835, John Ross, James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1‎, pages 284–5:

     Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.

   • 1843, John Holmes Agnew, Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art:

     On the wall were hanging thermometers, barometers, and hydrometers, and every other sort of ometer, numberless, dusty, and mysterious; […]

   • 1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303:

     Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.

   • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:

     The brothers had thrust the thermometer between two circuit boards in order to look for hot spots inside m zero. The thermometer’s dial was marked “Beef Rare—Ham—Beef Med—Pork.” “You want to keep the machine below ‘Pork,’” Gregory remarked.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Bengali: থার্মমিটার (tharmomiṭar)

参考

• barometer
• hygrometer
• temperature sensor
• temperature gun

アナグラム

• thermometre