See Also: thermoscope(medicine)

Galois (iou) and thermoscope (medicine)


Galois (iou)



Galois noun. ['galw¨»:] L19.
[evariste Galois (1811-32), French mathematician.]
Math. Used attrib. to designate various concepts arising from Galois's work.
Galois field a field with a finite number of elements. Galois theory a method of applying group theory to the solution of algebraic equations.
Galoisian adjective L19.

thermoscope (medicine)


thermoscope
<instrument, physics> An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.

Origin: Thermo- + -scope.

Source: Websters Dictionary