thermocouple

1. 1.

   a kind of thermometer consisting of two wires of different metals that are joined at both ends; one junction is at the temperature to be measured and the other is held at a fixed lower temperature; the current generated in the circuit is proportional to the temperature difference

   Synonymsthermocouple junction

   Broaderthermometer

Other forms of thermocouple

plural

thermocouples·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thermocouple

What does thermocouple mean?

thermocouple means "a kind of thermometer consisting of two wires of different metals that are joined at both ends; one junction is at the temperature to be measured and the other is held at a fixed lower temperature; the current generated in the circuit is proportional to the temperature difference".

How many syllables are in thermocouple?

thermocouple has 4 syllables: ther-mo-cou-ple. The stress falls on "mo".

What is another word for thermocouple?

Close synonyms include thermocouple junction. 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 thermocouple a common word?

thermocouple 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.