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thermoscope
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thermoscope, n. [Thermo- + -scope.].
An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie , was afterward called the differential thermometer . [1913 Webster]
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thermoscope
Thermometer
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