thermometer vs thermocouple

thermocouple vs thermometer

thermometer and thermocouple both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
thermometer	Yes	No	No	No
thermocouple	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, thermocouple is a hyponym of thermometer; that is, thermocouple is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than thermometer:

thermometer: measuring instrument for measuring temperature
thermocouple: a kind of thermometer consisting of two wires of different metals that are joined at both ends; one junction is at the temperature to be measured and the other is held at a fixed lower temperature; the current generated in the circuit is proportional to the temperature difference

Other hyponyms of thermometer include alcohol-in-glass thermometer, alcohol thermometer, candy thermometer, Centigrade thermometer, cryometer, dry-bulb thermometer, Fahrenheit thermometer, air thermometer, gas thermometer, maximum and minimum thermometer, meat thermometer, mercury-in-glass thermometer, mercury thermometer, oven thermometer, pyrometer, Reaumur thermometer, platinum thermometer, resistance thermometer, reversing thermometer, self-registering thermometer, telethermometer, thermocouple junction, electric thermometer, thermel, thermoelectric thermometer, thermograph, thermometrograph, thermopile, wet-bulb thermometer.

thermometer (noun)	thermocouple (noun)
measuring instrument for measuring temperature	a kind of thermometer consisting of two wires of different metals that are joined at both ends; one junction is at the temperature to be measured and the other is held at a fixed lower temperature; the current generated in the circuit is proportional to the temperature difference

Difference between thermometer and thermocouple

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