air thermometer

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   thermometer that measures temperature by changes in the pressure of a gas kept at constant volume

   Synonymsgas thermometer

   Broaderthermometer

Questions about air thermometer

What does air thermometer mean?

air thermometer means "thermometer that measures temperature by changes in the pressure of a gas kept at constant volume".

What is another word for air thermometer?

Close synonyms include gas thermometer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air thermometer a common word?

air thermometer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.