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

Example Sentences

The entomologist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur once tallied 84,000 bees leaving a hive.

From New York Times

In 1719, a French biologist, Rene Antoine Ferchault De Reaumur, wrote a scientific paper pointing out that wasps could make paper nests by chewing wood, so why couldn't humans?

From BBC

The French businessman Félix Potin opened one of Paris’s first modern retail stores at Rue Réaumur and Boulevard de Sébastopol in 1860.

From New York Times

Lastly, Cheselden fancied that digestion was operated by a peculiar secretion in the stomach, called gastric juice; and Haller, Réaumur, Spallanzani, Blumenbach and most other modern physiologists, concur with him in the same opinion, although admitting that this function is most probably assisted by various accessory circumstances.

From Project Gutenberg

In torpedos kept in water for experimental purposes, Réaumur found that he handled them without experiencing any shock for some time, until they at last appeared to become impatient: he then experienced a stunning sensation along the arm, not easily to be described, but resembling that which is felt when a limb has been struck with a sudden blow.

From Project Gutenberg