MEASURING TEMPERATURE

**Definition:** This place covers:

A detailed description of the subject matter appropriate for the subclass G01K is possible only at the main-group level.

Provisions that are valid at a general level (e.g. of a kind appropriate to more than one of the main groups) are provided in the sections that follow.

The user is otherwise referred to the definitions for the individual main groups of G01K which follow hereafter. The following listing is intended to assist the user:

Apparatus or methods for measuring temperature, i.e. thermometers. The following types of thermometers are therefore covered, the list being non exhaustive:

Testing or calibrating of thermometers.

Apparatus or methods for measuring quantity of heat, i.e. calorimeters.

Testing or calibrating of calorimeters.

Thermally-sensitive elements not otherwise provided for.

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - Radiation pyrometry -> G01J5/00

**Glossary:** - Thermometer: Includes thermally-sensitive elements not provided for in other subclasses.