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Reaumur

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Ré·au·mur or Re·au·mur  (r-myr)
adj. Abbr. R
Relating to, being, or indicated on a thermometer scale that registers the freezing point of water as 0° and the boiling point as 80°.
[After René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur.]
Ré·au·mur  (r-myr, --, r--mür), René Antoine Ferchault de 1683-1757.
French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer and devised the Réaumur scale.
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Noun1.Reaumur - French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer (1683-1757)
Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur


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Christmas came and except for the ceremonial Mass, the solemn and wearisome Christmas congratulations from neighbors and servants, and the new dresses everyone put on, there were no special festivities, though the calm frost of twenty degrees Reaumur, the dazzling sunshine by day, and the starlight of the winter nights seemed to call for some special celebration of the season.
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presented by Tchebarov, the new paint, thirty degrees Reaumur and a stifling atmosphere, a crowd of people, the talk about the murder of a person where he had been just before, and all that on an empty stomach--he might well have a fainting fit
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--It is very cold,--fifteen degrees of frost Reaumur, but perfectly delicious, still, bright weather, and one feels jolly and energetic and amiably disposed towards everybody.
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