mercury-in-glass thermometer

Questions about mercury-in-glass thermometer

What does mercury-in-glass thermometer mean?

mercury-in-glass thermometer means "thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube".

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

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

mercury-in-glass 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.