réaumur
/ɹeɪəʊˈmjʊə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Réaumur scale, a temperature scale in which the boiling point of water is 80 degrees and its freezing point is 0 degrees.
Uncountable
adj
Measured on the Réaumur scale.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "I am able to state that the morning of Sebastian's birth was a fine windless one, with twelve degrees (Réaumur) below zero…."