auxiliary thermometer
auxiliary thermometer
[ȯg′zil·yə·rē thər′mäm·əd·ər] (engineering)
A mercury-in-glass thermometer attached to the stem of a reversing thermometer and read at the same time as the reversing thermometer so that the correction to the reading of the latter, resulting from change in temperature since reversal, can be computed.
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