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Pyrometer

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

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Pyroscope 76% connected

An instrument for measuring the intensity of heat radiating from a fire, or the cooling influence of bodies. It is a differential thermometer, having…

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Thermometer 76% connected

An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in th…

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Adiabatic adjective · 78% connection

occurring without loss or gain of heat; "adiabatic expansion"

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Bellows n. sing. & pl. · 78% connection

An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air throug…

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Bolometer noun · 78% connection

An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic b…

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Burn verb · 78% connection

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

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Calefaction noun · 78% connection

The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.

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Calipers n. pl. · 78% connection

An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies,…

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Caloric noun · 78% connection

The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientifi…

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Calorimeter noun · 78% connection

An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, ch…

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Compact p. p. & a · 78% connection

Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.

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Cone noun · 78% connection

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…

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Containment noun · 78% connection

a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate pe…

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Cosmolabe noun · 78% connection

An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.

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Cut-off noun · 78% connection

The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stro…

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Dilatable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatab…

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Dilatometer noun · 78% connection

An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.

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Entropy noun · 78% connection

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…

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Ether noun · 78% connection

A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be…

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Expansion noun · 78% connection

That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal.

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