Digital thermometers offer an extremely wide range of uses in day-to-day professional and home applications. They provide accuracy and speed of temperature reading in almost any situation that a traditional thermometer would do, as well as being ideally suited to a great many scenarios in which liquid-in-glass versions would be unsuitable.
In most applications or environments that would prove challenging to a liquid thermometer, there will be a digital version available that can perform the task without issue. This include: