temperature
Meaning of temperature
noun
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
- The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
Information about temperature
- It is a name.
- The plural form of temperature is: temperatures.
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Hyphenation of temperature
tem-per-a-ture
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- temperature is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Translation of temperature
- German: Temperatur
- Spanish: temperatura
- French: température
- Italian: temperatura
- Portuguese: temperatura
Words that rhyme with temperature
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