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- English Word Thermobarometer Definition An instrument for determining altitudes by the boiling point of water.
- English Word Thermobattery Definition A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile.
- English Word Thermocautery Definition Cautery by the application of heat.
- English Word Thermochemic Definition Alt. of Thermochemical
- English Word Thermochemical Definition Of or pertaining to thermochemistry; obtained by, or employed in, thermochemistry.
- English Word Thermochemistry Definition That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.
- English Word Thermochrosy Definition The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.
- English Word Thermocurrent Definition A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.
- English Word Thermodynamic Definition Relating to thermodynamics; caused or operated by force due to the application of heat.
- English Word Thermodynamics Definition The science which treats of the mechanical action or relations of heat.
- English Word Thermoelectric Definition Pertaining to thermoelectricity; as, thermoelectric currents.
- English Word Thermoelectricity Definition Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.
- English Word Thermoelectrometer Definition An instrument for measuring the strength of an electric current in the heat which it produces, or for determining the heat developed by such a current.
- English Word Thermogen Definition Caloric; heat; regarded as a material but imponderable substance.
- English Word Thermogenic Definition Relating to heat, or to the production of heat; producing heat; thermogenous; as, the thermogenic tissues.
- English Word Thermogenous Definition Producing heat; thermogenic.
- English Word Thermograph Definition An instrument for automatically recording indications of the variation of temperature.
- English Word Thermology Definition A discourse on, or an account of, heat.
- English Word Thermolysis Definition The resolution of a compound into parts by heat; dissociation by heat.
- English Word Thermolyze Definition To subject to thermolysis; to dissociate by heat.