How to spell thermometer

hear itther·mom·e·ter/,θɜrmə'mɛtrɪk/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: An instrument used to measure temperature.

In a sentence: The thermometer showed it was very hot outside.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as thermometor or thermometere.

Same family: thermometric, thermostat, thermal, thermodynamics, temperature. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Thermometer comes from two Greek roots: "thermo" meaning heat and "metron" meaning measure. So a thermometer is literally a device for "measuring heat."

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