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temperature

noun
/ˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/UK/ˈtem.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə//ˈtɛm.pɚ.(ə)ˌt͡ʃɚ/CA

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temperātūra (cf. also French température), from the past participle stem of tempero (“to temper”).

  1. borrowed from temperātūra

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.

  2. An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses

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

    • You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
    • "Aren't you feeling so well this morning?" she asked him anxiously. "Do you think you've got a temperature?"

  3. A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of…

    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.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.

    2. The general mood.

      • But it is both easier and more accurate to take the industry's true temperature at small private gatherings like a conference organized by the Ziff Davis publishing company in northern California last week.
      • [Stephen] Miller's words did not seem designed to lower the temperature.

    3. The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.

    4. The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered…

      The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.

      • Our intemperence it is that pulls so many several incurable diseases on our heads, that hastens old age, perverts our temperature, and brings upon us sudden death.
      • […]that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy foundation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind […]
      • Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature.

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Derived

absolute temperature, autoignition temperature, biotemperature, body temperature, buying temperature, convective temperature, core temperature, critical temperature, cryotemperature, Curie temperature, distemperature, dry-bulb temperature, dry bulb temperature, equivalent potential temperature, equiviscous temperature, floor temperature challenge, glass transition temperature, high-temperature superconductivity, high-temperature superconductor, humiture, ignition temperature, I have a temperature, IQ of room temperature, kinetic temperature, land skin temperature, light-off temperature, liquid nitrogen temperature, low temperature flexibility, multitemperature, Néel temperature, overtemperature, palaeotemperature, paleotemperature, perceived temperature, potential temperature, room-temperature, room temperature, room temperature IQ, room temperature I.Q., room-temperature IQ · +17 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at temperature. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at temperature. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at temperature

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA