temperature.
A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
Meaning & usage
A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.
You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents.
A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.
The general mood.
The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin temperātūra (cf. also French température), from the past participle stem of tempero (“to temper”).
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