Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mercury-in-glass_thermometer

1 sense of mercury-in-glass thermometer

Sense 1
mercury thermometer, mercury-in-glass thermometer -- (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)
       => thermometer -- (measuring instrument for measuring temperature)