Examples of thermometry in a Sentence
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This finding held, even when researchers allowed for changes in thermometry methods and technologies.
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Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2022
Wunderlich was a German physician and researcher who contributed a great deal to the science of thermometry.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2022
Enter Danish astronomer Olaus Rømer, who heralded an innovation that would change thermometry forever.
—Phil Jaekl, Time, 1 June 2021
But the reports have been convincing, says Luís Carlos, a nanoscientist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, who studies intracellular thermometry but was not involved in the new study.
—Alla Katsnelson, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2021
The newly bright prospects for ocean acoustic thermometry are also a validation for Munk, who was deeply saddened when his global acoustic dreams were muted, Cornuelle says.
—Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 17 Sep. 2020
But by then, oceanographers had left acoustic thermometry behind and were relying on Argo, Dushaw says.
—Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 17 Sep. 2020
There are also surprising opportunities for errors simply because of the massive technological changes from the early 1800s to the present day: How were temperatures taken, and could the change be because of more precise thermometry?
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2020
The researchers considered this and controlled for any variation in thermometry.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2020
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Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2022
Wunderlich was a German physician and researcher who contributed a great deal to the science of thermometry.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2022
Enter Danish astronomer Olaus Rømer, who heralded an innovation that would change thermometry forever.
—Phil Jaekl, Time, 1 June 2021
But the reports have been convincing, says Luís Carlos, a nanoscientist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, who studies intracellular thermometry but was not involved in the new study.
—Alla Katsnelson, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2021
The newly bright prospects for ocean acoustic thermometry are also a validation for Munk, who was deeply saddened when his global acoustic dreams were muted, Cornuelle says.
—Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 17 Sep. 2020
But by then, oceanographers had left acoustic thermometry behind and were relying on Argo, Dushaw says.
—Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 17 Sep. 2020
There are also surprising opportunities for errors simply because of the massive technological changes from the early 1800s to the present day: How were temperatures taken, and could the change be because of more precise thermometry?
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2020
The researchers considered this and controlled for any variation in thermometry.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2020
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1848, in the meaning defined above
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thermometry
noun
ther·mom·e·try
thə(r)-ˈmäm-ə-trē 
plural thermometries
: the measurement of temperature
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