optical pyrometer

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   a pyrometer that uses the color of the light emitted by a hot object

   Synonymspyroscope

   Broaderpyrometer

Questions about optical pyrometer

What does optical pyrometer mean?

optical pyrometer means "a pyrometer that uses the color of the light emitted by a hot object".

What is another word for optical pyrometer?

Close synonyms include pyroscope. 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 optical pyrometer a common word?

optical pyrometer 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.