I mean, it would work, lol.

It's really an average of all the traffic that was interrupted

For anyone confused.

Most other languages do call it a thermo meter or similar. People who are not native English speakers will pronounce it wrongly when speaking English, because the word is the same - it's just pronounced weirdly in both British and American English. The British and American pronunciations are not exactly the same on this, but they're both ~~wrong~~ different from any other languages, except Greek.

The English pronunciation is caused by English inheriting the Greek way of stressing the third last syllable on words of Greek origin. It makes no sense in my mind why they do it on compound words though. Meter is not Greek. It's English, so they could've chosen differently, but they obviously chose the most annoying way to pronounce it.

There's a few other words like that, but I don't remember which..

I like to do that with a lot of the o'meters, just for fun.

Acceler-o-meter and seis-o-meter are my favorite. Weirdly least fun: kil-o-meter.

and what the teacher did?

Oh, great, now I have to rub one out again.

See figure 3 here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_temperature

As mentioned above, there are other ways molecules can jiggle besides the three translational degrees of freedom that imbue substances with their kinetic temperature. As can be seen in the animation at right, molecules are complex objects; they are a population of atoms and thermal agitation can strain their internal chemical bonds in three different ways: via rotation, bond length, and bond angle movements; these are all types of internal degrees of freedom.

tl;dr Water be jiggly. Amount of jiggle is hard to put a number on

https://youtu.be/9sKppwrLBY8