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Noun: radiation pyrometer
  1. A pyrometer for estimating the temperature of distant sources of heat; radiation is focussed on a thermojunction connected in circuit with a galvanometer
    "The metallurgist used a radiation pyrometer to measure the temperature of the molten metal"

Derived forms: radiation pyrometers

Type of: pyrometer

Encyclopedia: Radiation pyrometer