1. German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736); [syn: Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
n 1: German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and
developed the scale of temperature that bears his name
(1686-1736) [syn: Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel
Fahrenheit]