The word "thermometer" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about temperature measuring tools, or other scientific devices, or when talking about figurative temperature measures of abstract concepts. For example: "The thermometer of public opinion is increasing in favor of the new policy."
I realised the morgue was some kind of social thermometer.
If you want further reassurance, a food thermometer will give you a far straighter answer than the thermostat in your oven.
This is because you'll get flustered and accidentally snap your thermometer in half.
For £70, you get sent all the equipment – bottles, fermenter, thermometer, brew bag – plus a set of pre-measured ingredients in little silver pouches.
A thermometer in the office detected when it was getting too cold and sent a signal to the network requesting that calculations be diverted to the servers in the office.
Another way it can be done is for the subject to swallow a "thermometer pill", a small capsule that contains a temperature sensor and a transmitter to relay the reading to an external receiver as it passes through the digestive tract.
Until the 1940s, for example, ships typically measured the sea's temperature by dunking a thermometer into a bucket of sea water.
However, it is only by measuring his temperature with a thermometer that you can discover how serious his condition is.
A smartphone app displays and stores the data.So far the only blockbuster medical device to have become commonplace in the home is the thermometer, says Scanadu's boss, Walter de Brouwer.
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.
The traditional way to measure a person's core body temperature is to insert a thermometer into the rectum impractical on the sports field.
