Definition of Reaumor

Definition of Reaumor

Réaumur, French scientist, born in La Rochelle; made valuable researches and discoveries in the industrial arts as well as in natural history; is best known as the inventor of the thermometer that bears his name, which is graduated into 80 degrees from the temperature of melting ice to that of boiling water (1683-1757).

- Wikipedia

Ré`au`mur" (r&asl;`ō`m&usd;r"), a. Of or pertaining to René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Réaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented. -- n. A Réaumur thermometer or scale.

&fist; The Réaumur thermometer is so graduated that 0° marks the freezing point and 80° the boiling point of water. Frequently indicated by R. Cf. Centigrade, and Fahrenheit. See Illust. of Thermometer.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

English

a temperature scale in which the boiling point of water is 80 degrees and its freezing point is 0 degrees.

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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