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acoustic thermometer

A device to measure air temperature based on the principle that the speed of sound varies as the square root of temperature.

The most common application is in so-called sonic anemometers, where the time-of-flight of sound pulses between a pair of acoustic transducers is used to determine the speed of sound. This measurement is converted to temperature via the formula

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