mercury thermometer
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thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube
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- thermometer hypernym
- Beckman thermometer hyponym
- clinical thermometer hyponym
Parts & wholes
- bulb part meronym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | bulb |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | thermometer |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Beckman thermometer |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | clinical thermometer |