The company that sold me the 8-channel electronic exhaust temp system called 'em "thermistors"- - - -so I didn't try to correct their semantics. They could have called them anything they wanted, as long as I got an accurate, repeatable exhaust port reading.
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!