Réaumur

American  

[rey-uh-myoor, rey-oh-myr] / ˈreɪ əˌmyʊər, reɪ oʊˈmür /

noun

1. René Antoine Ferchault de 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.

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adjective

1. Also Reaumur noting or pertaining to a temperature scale Réaumur scale in which 0° represents the ice point and 80° represents the steam point.

Réaumur British  

/ ˈreɪəˌmjʊə /

adjective

1. indicating measurement on the Réaumur scale of temperature

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Example Sentences

Its inventor, Professor Muschenbrock, wrote an account of it to Réaumur, and lacks language to express the terror into which his own experiments had thrown him.

From Steam, Steel and Electricity by Steele, James W.

Also Réaumur, Mémoires pour d’histoire des Insectes, t. i. p.

From The Industries of Animals by Houssay, Frédéric

The heat at eighty degrees of Fahrenheit is one thing and the heat at eighty degrees of Réaumur is a very different matter.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

In 1710, the great naturalist, Réaumur, had written a memoir for the express purpose of demonstrating that these "orties" are animals; and with this important paper Peyssonel must necessarily have been familiar.

From Critiques and Addresses by Huxley, Thomas Henry

Réaumur narrates this case only as far as the third generation.

From Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Huxley, Thomas Henry