Reaumur meaning

rā'ō-myo͝or'
Relating to, being, or indicated on a thermometer scale that registers the freezing point of water as 0° and the boiling point as 80°.
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Designating or of a temperature scale which registers the boiling point of water at 80° and the freezing point at 0°
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Origin of reaumur

After René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur

Sentence Examples

  • de Reaumur, and (1752-1778) of the Swede C. de Geer.

  • The work of de Reaumur and de Geer on the bionomics and life-history of insects has been continued by numerous observers, among whom may be especially mentioned in France J.

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  • 1694), the investigator of Polyps and the opponent of Marsigli and Reaumur, who held them to be plants; Woodward, the palaeontologist (1665-1722) - not to speak of others of less importance.

  • In this way is produced the crystalline, devitrified material, known as Reaumur's porcelain.

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