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éܳܰ
[ rey-uh-myoor; French rey-oh-myr ]
noun
- Re·né An·toine Fer·chault de [r, uh, -, ney, ah, n, -, twan, fe, r, -, shoh, d, uh], 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.
adjective
- Also a·ܰ. noting or pertaining to a temperature scale Réaumur scale in which 0° represents the ice point and 80° represents the steam point.
éܳܰ
/ ˈɪəˌʊə /
adjective
- indicating measurement on the éܳܰ scale of temperature
Example Sentences
The entomologist René Antoine Ferchault de éܳܰ once tallied 84,000 bees leaving a hive.
In 1719, a French biologist, Rene Antoine Ferchault De Reaumur, wrote a scientific paper pointing out that wasps could make paper nests by chewing wood, so why couldn't humans?
The French businessman Félix Potin opened one of Paris’s first modern retail stores at Rue éܳܰ and Boulevard de Sébastopol in 1860.
Lastly, Cheselden fancied that digestion was operated by a peculiar secretion in the stomach, called gastric juice; and Haller, éܳܰ, Spallanzani, Blumenbach and most other modern physiologists, concur with him in the same opinion, although admitting that this function is most probably assisted by various accessory circumstances.
In torpedos kept in water for experimental purposes, éܳܰ found that he handled them without experiencing any shock for some time, until they at last appeared to become impatient: he then experienced a stunning sensation along the arm, not easily to be described, but resembling that which is felt when a limb has been struck with a sudden blow.
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