telethermometer
English
Etymology
From tele- + thermometer.
Noun
telethermometer (plural telethermometers)
- An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.
- 1914, Arthur B[enjamin] Reeve, “(please specify the story)”, in The Dream Doctor (The Craig Kennedy Series), New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:
- "The accurate measurement of temperature is still a problem of considerable difficulty," he resumed, adjusting the thermometer. "A heated mass can impart vibratory motion to the ether which fills space, and the wave-motions of ether are able to reproduce in other bodies motions similar to those by which they are caused. At this end of the line I merely measure the electromotive force developed by the difference in temperature of two similar thermo-electric junctions, opposed. We call those junctions in a thermopile 'couples,' and by getting the recording instruments sensitive enough, we can measure one one-thousandth of a degree.
Coordinate terms
- infrared camera
- thermal camera
- thermal imager
- thermal imaging camera
- thermographic camera
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “telethermometer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)