PYROMETER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pyrometer mean? 

• PYROMETER (noun)
  The noun PYROMETER has 1 sense:

1. a thermometer designed to measure high temperatures

  Familiarity information: PYROMETER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PYROMETER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thermometer designed to measure high temperatures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pyrometer" is a kind of...):

thermometer (measuring instrument for measuring temperature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pyrometer"):

optical pyrometer; pyroscope (a pyrometer that uses the color of the light emitted by a hot object)

pyrometric cone (a pyrometer consisting of a series of cones that melt at different temperatures)

radiation pyrometer (a pyrometer for estimating the temperature of distant sources of heat; radiation is focussed on a thermojunction connected in circuit with a galvanometer)

resistance pyrometer (pyrometer that measures high temperatures by the resistance in a heated wire)