mercury-in-glass thermometer

Noun mercury-in-glass thermometer has 1 sense

• mercury-in-glass thermometer(n = noun.artifact) mercury 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;
has particulars: beckman thermometer, clinical thermometer, mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer
has parts: bulb
is a kind of thermometer