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Réaumur

[ rey-uh-myoor; French rey-oh-myr ]

noun

  1. Re·né An·toine Fer·chault de [r, uh, -, ney, ah, n, -, twan, fe, r, -, shoh, d, uh], 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.


adjective

  1. Also Reau·mur. noting or pertaining to a temperature scale Réaumur scale in which 0° represents the ice point and 80° represents the steam point.

Réaumur

/ ˈreɪəˌmjʊə /

adjective

  1. indicating measurement on the Réaumur scale of temperature
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Mr. Reaumur has given us, in his History of Insects, some very curious particulars respecting these little worms.

M. Reaumur also computed that 663,522 spiders would scarcely furnish a single pound of silk.

In that of Reaumur, which is chiefly used abroad, the freezing point of water is 0, and the boiling point 80.

Reaumur was probably the first to show that steel could be made by fusing malleable iron with cast-iron.

Reaumur even asserts, that the larva of Myrmeleon has no other entrance into its throat than through these tubular mandibles.

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