temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛmp(ə)ɹət͡ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɛm.pə.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɛm.pəɹˌt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɛm.pɹəˌt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɛm.pə.t͡ʃɚ/
ipa: [ˈtʰɛm.pʰəɹˌt͡ʃɚ]
ipa: [ˈtʰɛm.pʰɹəˌt͡ʃɚ]
ipa: [tʰɛm.pʰə.t͡ʃɚ]
note: Indic
ipa: /ʈɛmp(ə)ˈretʃə(r)/
Forms: form: temperatures
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin temperātūra (cf. also French température), from the past participle stem of tempero (“I temper”).
Senses: examples: text: The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
text: The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
text: The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.
text: 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.
ref: 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020, page 80:
text: The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.
ref: 2018 January 4, Janie Tankard Carnock, “Frigid Baltimore City schools: The racism we haven’t confronted”, in CNN:
glosses: A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
examples: text: You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
text: "Aren't you feeling so well this morning?" she asked him anxiously. "Do you think you've got a temperature?"
ref: 1951, Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time:
glosses: An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2000 September, Clinton D. Stoner, “Inquiries into the Nature of Free Energy and Entropy in Respect to Biochemical Thermodynamics”, in Entropy, volume 2, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 106–141:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: 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.
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2005 August 20, Seth Schiesel, “Taking the Temperature of the Creative Body”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: [Stephen] Miller's words did not seem designed to lower the temperature.
ref: 2025 September 13, Edward Luce, “A descent into mutual loathing”, in FT Weekend, page 7:
glosses: The general mood.
glosses: The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
text: […]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 […]
ref: 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
text: Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature.
ref: 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II
glosses: The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
Synonyms: word: temperature
Hypernyms: word: physical property
Hyponyms: apparent temperature
closure temperature
color temperature
equicohesive temperature
Hagedorn temperature
Planck temperature
planetary equilibrium temperature
Derived terms: 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
overtemperature
palaeotemperature
paleotemperature
perceived temperature
potential temperature
room-temperature
room temperature
room temperature IQ
room temperature I.Q.
room-temperature IQ
run a temperature
saturation temperature
spike a temperature
standard temperature and pressure
temperatural
temperature coefficient
temperature gun
temperature-humidity index
temperatureless
temperature play
temperaturewise
thermodynamic temperature
transition temperature
virtual temperature
wet bulb temperature
wet-bulb temperature
Wilson's temperature syndrome
Related terms: word: temperature inversion
sense: Customary
alt: °F
word: degrees Fahrenheit
sense: Customary
english: measures absolute temperature
translation: measures absolute temperature
alt: °R
word: degrees Rankine
sense: Metric
alt: °C
word: degrees Celsius
sense: Metric
alt: °C
word: centigrade
sense: Metric
english: K, measures absolute temperature
translation: K, measures absolute temperature
word: kelvin
word: cool
word: cold
word: fresh
word: fever
word: hot
word: lukewarm
word: warm
word: boiling
word: scalding
word: incandescent
word: scorching
word: toasty
word: red-hot
word: molten
word: egelid
word: tepid
word: balmy
word: algid
word: arctic
word: benumbed
word: bitter
word: bleak
word: boreal
word: brisk
word: brumal
word: chill
word: chilly
word: crisp
word: drafty
word: gelid
word: inclement
word: nesh
word: nippy
word: parky
word: shivering
word: sleety
word: wintry
word: freezing
word: frigid
word: frosty
word: frore
word: frozen
word: glacial
word: icy
word: polar
word: snowy
word: extreme
word: high
word: moderate
word: mild
word: low
word: absolute
word: weather
word: energy