thermocouple junction

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

   Broaderthermometer

Questions about thermocouple junction

What does thermocouple junction mean?

thermocouple junction 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".

What is another word for thermocouple junction?

Close synonyms include thermocouple. 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 junction a common word?

thermocouple junction 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.