RÉAUMUR


Meaning of RÉAUMUR in English

adj. expressed in or related to the scale of temperature at which water freezes at 0ø and boils at 80ø under standard conditions. Réaumur scale this scale.

[ R. de Réaumur, Fr. physicist d. 1757 ]

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