temperature

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/]

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1. temperature (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.

Example: The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.

2. temperature (noun) — sense 2

Definition: An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.

Example: You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.

3. temperature (noun) — sense 3

Definition: 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.

Example: In consequence, macroscopic amounts of matter in thermal contact with one another tend to be at the same temperature, a fact of sufficient fundamental importance to merit belated designation as the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics.

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