thermometer vs thermocouple junction

thermocouple junction vs thermometer

thermometer and thermocouple junction both are nouns.

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

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

thermometer: measuring instrument for measuring temperature
thermocouple junction: 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, electric thermometer, thermel, thermoelectric thermometer, thermograph, thermometrograph, thermopile, wet-bulb thermometer.

thermometer (noun)	thermocouple junction (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 junction

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