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Réaumur
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English
Etymology
en French scientist 1683 1757 René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur =.
Pronunciation
en /ɹeɪəʊˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
Noun
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Réaumur scale, a temperature scale in which the boiling point of water is 80 degrees and its freezing point is 0 degrees. from 18th c.
Adjective
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en chiefly as postmodifier Measured on the Réaumur scale. from 18th c.
en 1898 Elizabeth von Arnim Elizabeth and her German Garden Vintage 2017 97 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.
en 1941 w:Vladimir Nabokov The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Penguin 1971 5 I am able to state that the morning of Sebastian's birth was a fine windless one, with twelve degrees (Réaumur) below zero….
Further reading
Réaumur scale
German
Pronunciation
de De-Réaumur.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
de noun n
de Reaumur