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Réaumur

/ɹeɪəʊˈmjʊə(ɹ)/

Réaumur noun: réaumur scale, a temperature scale in which the boiling point of water is 80 degrees and its freezing point is 0 degrees.

Noun

Réaumur (uncountable)

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

Adjective

Réaumur (not comparable)

  1. Measured on the Réaumur scale.
    • It is very cold,—fifteen degrees of frost Réaumur, but perfectly delicious, still, bright weather, and one feels jolly and energetic and amiably disposed towards everybody.1898, Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and her German Garden, Vintage, published 2017, page 97
    • I am able to state that the morning of Sebastian's birth was a fine windless one, with twelve degrees (Réaumur) below zero….1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 5

Origin of Réaumur

Named after French scientist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757).

Phrases with Réaumur

Questions about Réaumur

What does Réaumur mean?
Réaumur means réaumur scale, a temperature scale in which the boiling point of water is 80 degrees and its freezing point is 0 degrees.
What part of speech is Réaumur?
Réaumur can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce Réaumur?
Réaumur is pronounced /ɹeɪəʊˈmjʊə(ɹ)/.

Words near Réaumur in the dictionary

  1. Rättvik
  2. Räuchermann
  3. Räuchermanns
  4. Rääkkylä
  5. Ré
  6. Réaumur
  7. Réaumur scale
  8. récamier
  9. Récamier's operation
  10. récamiers
  11. réchauffé

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