Definition of "pyrometric" []

• Of, or relating to a pyrometer or pyrometry. (adjective)

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• "The temperature at which cones squat, when heated at a standard rate, is known as the pyrometric cone equivalent (PCE)."
• "All previously known thermometers failed in that pyrometric range, so Wedgwood felt obliged to invent a whole new measurement standard (reminiscent of Bridgman in his high-pressure laboratory)."
• "The urge for conceptual extension, in the Wedgwood case, was rooted in a widespread feeling that there was a property in the pyrometric range that was continuous in its meaning with temperature in the everyday range."