English Explanatory Dictionary

Réaumur scale

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A temperature scale on which 0 °C is 0 and 100 °C is 80.
  2. A temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 and the alcohol mixture expands by 8% and boils at 80.

Word forms

Réaumur scale

Etymology

Named after the French scientist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757).

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