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ˈreɪ əˌmyʊərréau·mur

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Reaumur, Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumurnoun

    French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer (1683-1757)

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  1. Réaumurnoun

    a temperature scale in which the boiling point of water is 80 degrees and its freezing point is 0 degrees.

Wikipedia

  1. réaumur

    René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (French: [ʁeomyʁ]; 28 February 1683, La Rochelle – 17 October 1757, Saint-Julien-du-Terroux) was a French entomologist and writer who contributed to many different fields, especially the study of insects. He introduced the Réaumur temperature scale.

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  1. reaumur

    Reaumur is a scale of temperature that was proposed by the French scientist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur in the early 18th century. In this temperature scale, the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point is at 80 degrees. It was widely used in Europe until the 19th century when it was officially replaced by the Celsius scale. This scale continues to be used in some industries, primarily in the production of certain foodstuffs.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Reaumuradjective

    of or pertaining to Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Reaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented

  2. Reaumurnoun

    a Reaumur thermometer or scale

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Réaumur

    French scientist, born in La Rochelle; made valuable researches and discoveries in the industrial arts as well as in natural history; is best known as the inventor of the thermometer that bears his name, which is graduated into 80 degrees from the temperature of melting ice to that of boiling water (1683-1757).

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of réaumur in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of réaumur in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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