temperature
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin temperātūra (cf. also French température), from the past participle stem of tempero (“to temper”).
Inflected forms:
form: temperatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
gloss: An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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?"
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The general mood.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Synonyms: temperature
Related words: temperature inversion
cool
cold
fresh
fever
hot
lukewarm
warm
boiling
scalding
incandescent
scorching
scorchio
red-hot
molten
egelid
balmy
toasty
tepid
algid
bleak
boreal
brisk
brumal
chill
chilly
crisp
drafty
gelid
inclement
nesh
nippy
parky
shivering
sleety
taters
wintry
arctic
baltic
benumbed
bitter cold
brass monkeys
freezing
frigid
frosty
frore
frozen
glacial
icy
polar
snowy
extreme
high
moderate
mild
low
absolute
weather
energy
Derived words: 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 IQ
room temperature I.Q.
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
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ջերմաստիճան
roman: ǰermastičan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: hərarət
lang: Azerbaijani
word: istilik
lang: Belarusian
word: тэмперату́ра
roman: tempjeratúra
lang: Belarusian
word: тэмпэрату́ра
roman: temperatúra
lang: Bulgarian
word: температу́ра
roman: temperatúra
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 氣溫 /气温
roman: hei³ wan¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 氣溫 /气温
roman: qìwēn
lang: Finnish
word: lämpötila
lang: German
word: Temperatur
lang: Greek
word: θερμοκρασία
roman: thermokrasía
lang: Hindi
word: तापमान
roman: tāpmān
lang: Japanese
word: 気温
roman: kion
lang: Korean
word: 기온
roman: gion
lang: Macedonian
word: температу́ра
roman: temperatúra
lang: Malayalam
word: താപനില
roman: tāpanila
lang: Navajo
word: naʼalkid
lang: Portuguese
word: temperatura
lang: Romanian
word: temperatură
lang: Russian
word: температу́ра
roman: temperatúra
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: температу́ра
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: temperatúra
lang: Spanish
word: temperatura
lang: Swedish
word: temperatur
lang: Telugu
word: ఉష్ణోగ్రత
roman: uṣṇōgrata
lang: Turkish
word: sıcaklık
lang: Ukrainian
word: температу́ра
roman: temperatúra