thermovoltmeter

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thermovoltmeter [¦thər·mō′vōlt‚mēd·ər]

(engineering)

A voltmeter in which a current from the voltage source is passed through a resistor and a fine vacuum-enclosed platinum heater wire; a thermocouple, attached to the midpoint of the heater, generates a voltage of a few millivolts, and this voltage is measured by a direct-current millivoltmeter.

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