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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Réaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented.
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- noun French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer (1683-1757)
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Examples
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As it would be superfluous to graduate the table for each separate degree of temperature, the columns in the table show the weights for every 8 degrees Reaumur, which is quite sufficient: namely, from 24 deg. to 17 deg., from 16 deg. to 9 deg., and so on, down to -24 deg.; the equivalent Fahrenheit range being from 86 deg. down to -22 deg.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various
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"Scarcely fifteen degrees by Reaumur, which is only an increase of nine since our departure."
Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866
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Fahrenheit: and that the orange resists to four degrees below freezing of Reaumur, which is twenty-three degrees above zero of Fahrenheit.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Reaumur narrates this case only as far as the third generation.
Essays 2007
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Des Cartes, a Maupertuis, a Reaumur, and a Buffon.
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It coagulates at a heat above 40 Reaumur, and causes the scum on the pot – au – feu.
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A heat of about 32 [degrees] Reaumur, constantly vaporizing the different fluids the circulation of which sustains life, the diminution they undergo would unfit them for their purposes, if they were not renewed and refreshed.
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Water dissolves at first a portion of the osmazome; then the albumen coagulates at 50 degrees Reaumur, and forms the foam we see.
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Reaumur, the dazzling sunshine by day, and the starlight of the winter nights seemed to call for some special celebration of the season.
War and Peace 2003
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There had been a hard frost, eleven degrees Reaumur, without snow, but a little dry snow had fallen on the frozen ground during the night, and a keen dry wind was lifting and blowing it along the dreary streets of our town, especially about the market-place.
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