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Definition of Maximum and minimum thermometer
1. Noun. Thermometer that records the highest and lowest temperatures reached during a period of time.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maximum And Minimum Thermometer
Literary usage of Maximum and minimum thermometer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Physics: Heat by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"... Temperatures—Maximum and Minimum Thermometer—Thermostats. Introductory Remarks.—In
the science of Heat, we investigate those phenomena which are chiefly ..."
2. Practical Meteorology by John Drew (1860)
"Hick•s Maximum and Minimum Thermometer.—With this newly-invented thermometer,
which is made by Mr. Casella of Hatton Garden, the extremes of heat and cold ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Vinegar: With Special by William Theodore Brannt (1914)
"... the state of the temperature prevailing in the room, it is advisable to have
several ordinary thermometers and also a maximum and minimum thermometer. ..."
4. Meteorology: A Text-book on the Weather, the Causes of Its Changes, and by Willis Isbister Milham (1912)
"... must be standardized at least twice a day by comparing it with the indications
of, preferably, a maximum and minimum thermometer kept near it. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... the maximum and minimum thermometer be compared, the value of the latter
observations in. questions of mean temperature may be arrived at. ..."
6. Meteorology: A Text Book on the Weather, the Causes of Its Changes, and by Willis Isbister Milham (1912)
"... must be standardized at least twice a day by comparing it with the indications
of, preferably, a maximum and minimum thermometer kept near it. ..."
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