alcohol thermometer

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   thermometer consisting of a glass capillary tube marked with degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit and containing alcohol which rises or falls as it expands or contracts with changes in temperature

   Synonymsalcohol-in-glass thermometer

   Broaderthermometer

Questions about alcohol thermometer

What does alcohol thermometer mean?

alcohol thermometer means "thermometer consisting of a glass capillary tube marked with degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit and containing alcohol which rises or falls as it expands or contracts with changes in temperature".

What is another word for alcohol thermometer?

Close synonyms include alcohol-in-glass 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 alcohol thermometer a common word?

alcohol 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.