Meaning of temperature | Babel Free

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1. A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
   countable, uncountable
2. to measure a person's body heat, using a thermometer. temperatuur meet/neem يَقيس دَرَجَة حرارَة الجِسِم премервам температурата medir a temperatura měřit teplotu (někomu) Temperatur messen tage temperatur θερμομετρώ tomar/medir la temperatura de alguien kraadima دمای بدن را اندازه گیری کردن mitata lämpö prendre la température de לִמדוֹד חוֹם बुखार थर्मामीटर से नापना, देखना mjeriti kome temperaturu megméri vkinek a lázát mengukur panas mæla hita misurare la temperatura a qualcuno 体温を計る 체온을 재다...
3. An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.
   countable, uncountable
4. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment.
5. 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.
   countable, uncountable
6. The degree of heat in the body of a living organism, usually about 37.0°C (98.6°F) in humans.
7. A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.
   countable, uncountable
8. (General Physics) the degree of hotness of a body, substance, or medium; a physical property related to the average kinetic energy of the atoms or molecules of a substance
9. The general mood.
   colloquial, countable, figuratively, uncountable
10. (General Physics) a measure of this degree of hotness, indicated on a scale that has one or more fixed reference points
11. The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
12. (Pathology) informal a body temperature in excess of the normal
    informal
13. The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
14. archaic a. compromise
    archaic
15. a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value.
16. the degree of heat in a living body, normally about 98.6°F (37°C) in humans.
17. Obs. mildness, as of the weather.

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Examples

“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.”

“Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.”

“The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.”

“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?"”

“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.”

“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.”

“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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