reaumur scale

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   a temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees

   Broadertemperature scale

Questions about reaumur scale

What does reaumur scale mean?

reaumur scale means "a temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees".

Is reaumur scale a common word?

reaumur scale 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.