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Temperature

/ˈtɛmp(ə)ɹətʃə(ɹ)/

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

📖 Definitions of "Temperature"

noun
  1. 1

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

    "The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold."

  2. 2

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

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

  3. 3

    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. http//arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055

  4. 4

    The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.

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