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BECKMAN THERMOMETER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Beckman thermometer mean?

• BECKMAN THERMOMETER (noun)
The noun BECKMAN THERMOMETER has 1 sense:

1. a mercury thermometer that measures small differences or changes in temperature

Familiarity information: BECKMAN THERMOMETER used as a noun is very rare.

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• BECKMAN THERMOMETER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A mercury thermometer that measures small differences or changes in temperature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("Beckman thermometer" is a kind of...):

mercury thermometer; mercury-in-glass thermometer (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)

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