Thermopile meaning

thûrmə-pīl
A device consisting of a number of thermocouples connected in series or parallel, used for measuring temperature or generating current.
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A device consisting of a series of thermocouples, used for measuring minute changes in temperature or for generating thermoelectric current.
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A device consisting of a number of thermocouples connected in series or parallel, used for measuring temperature or generating current.
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An electronic device that converts thermal energy into electrical energy. Usually constructed using a series-combination of thermocouples.
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Origin of thermopile

  • thermo– pile

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Thermopile Sentence Examples

  • The imperfections of the thermopile, with which he began his work, led him, about 1880, to the invention of the bolometer, an instrument of extraordinary delicacy, which in its most refined form is believed to be capable of detecting a change of temperature amounting to less than one-hundred-millionth of a degree Centigrade.

  • Rosse's determinations, like those of his predecessors, were made with the thermopile.

  • The effect is most easily shown by connecting a voltaic cell to a thermopile for a short interval, then quickly (by means of a suitable key, such as a Pohl commutator with the cross connectors removed) disconnecting the pile from the cell and connecting it to a galvanometer, which will indicate a current in the reverse direction through the pile, and approximately proportional to the original current in intensity, provided that the other conditions of the experiment are constant.

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