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thermometers

NOUN
measure of temperature
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Two people in the area fainted as thermometers showed the temperature hitting 97 degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

As the UK's national weather service, the Met Office is the custodian of the Central England Temperature record, the longest running weather record in the world, based on measurements taken using thermometers and other instruments.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

Over the last decade, thermometers in that neighborhood have climbed to 110 degrees or hotter at least two dozen times.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2024

The outage in that state on Tuesday came during a heat wave in the Northeast that shot thermometers up above 90 degrees in Boston.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

One of his early ideas was one of the first thermometers, which worked ‘upside down’ to modern eyes.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin