The phrase "at a thermometer" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is unclear when this phrase would be appropriately used due to its lack of context and clarity.
Example: "The temperature reading was taken at a thermometer, but it was inaccurate."
Alternatives: "on a thermometer" or "using a thermometer".
FOR most people, checking the weather before setting off for work in the morning is simply a matter of switching on the radio or television, looking at a thermometer, or just sticking a nose out of the window.
Neither do these so called 'sceptics' (generally they are not sceptics) mention the rapid and accelerating melting of ice sheets at both poles, the heat build up in the world's oceans or the rising sea levels – all of which are clear signals of a warming planet before you've even shot a glance at a thermometer.
S looks at a thermometer that is displaying the temperature as 72 degrees.
Looking only at a thermometer instead of a patient.
Last year, Unilever reached a long-awaited settlement with almost 600 former employees in India who suffered mercury poisoning from working at a thermometer factory owned by Unilever.
For example, while looking at a thermometer, all competent observers could agree that it reads 37.0 C.; and given the right visual, aural, and tactile stimuli while using a sphygmomanometer, all competent medical professionals could agree that the patient's blood pressure is 130/8 0mmHg at the time of the measurement.
It should be 10cm deep and at 190C/360F on a thermometer.
The cooling flask was a 1,000 ml spherical glass flask that contained ice and water, the surface temperature of which was maintained at 10°C with a thermometer and a stirrer.
She gave many reasons that steps were missed — there was no time, they were swamped with deliveries, there was seldom a thermometer at hand, the cleaners never did their job.
"I can tell the temperature at my house with a thermometer on the back porch, but if it's a cheap thermometer, I'll still trust the National Weather Service's reading more, even though it isn't in my backyard," Dooley says.
Here he is, this poor chap, with more symptoms than you could shake a thermometer at (symptoms such as the delusion that there is a paper-clip stuck to the under side of his tongue and the sudden feeling when he thrusts his fingers into a pair of shears that the shears are taking hold of him him).
