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English noun: mercury thermometer | |||
| 1. | mercury thermometer (artifact) thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube | ||
| Synonyms | mercury-in-glass thermometer | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | thermometer | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Beckman thermometer, clinical thermometer, mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer | ||
| Part holonym | bulb | ||
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