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The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendémiaire.

An artificial alkaloid of complex composition, resembling thalline and used as an antipyretic, -- whence its name.

A combining form from Gr. qe`rmh heat, qermo`s hot, warm; as in thermochemistry, thermodynamic.

Loss of power to distinguish heat or cold by touch.

An instrument for recording simultaneously the pressure and temperature of a gas; a combined thermograph and barograph.

An instrument for determining altitudes by the boiling point of water.

A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile.

Cautery by the application of heat. Paquelin's thermocautery, thermocautery by means of a hollow platinum point, which is kept constantly hot by the passage through it of benzine vapor.

Of or pertaining to thermochemistry; obtained by, or employed in, thermochemistry.

That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.

Pert. to or designating heat rays that have undergone selective absorption and are therefore analogous to colored light rays.

The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.

A thermoelectric couple.

A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat.

A white crystalline substance derived from urethane, used in medicine as an antipyretic, etc.

Relating to thermodynamics; caused or operated by force due to the application of heat. Thermodynamic function. See Heat weight, under Heat.

The science which treats of the mechanical action or relations of heat.

Pertaining to thermoelectricity; as, thermoelectric currents.

A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.

Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.