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A temperature sensor that uses the voltage produced by two different joined conductors at differing temperatures.
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- thermocouple probe
- thermocouple reading
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The thermocouple probe registered heat behind the cooling plate.
A broken thermocouple produced the reassuring but false reading.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular thermocouple; plural thermocouples. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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