mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer

Questions about mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer

What is another word for mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer?

It depends which mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer you mean. In the sense “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”, the synonyms are clinical thermometer. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer?

WordNet records no antonym for mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for mercury-in-glass clinical thermometerAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mercury-in-glass clinical thermometerWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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