temperature
English
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#TEMPERATURECategory:English terms derived from Latin#TEMPERATURE temperātūra[1] (cf. also French température), from the past participle stem of tempero (“to temper”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/, /ˈtɛm.pə.t͡ʃə/Category:English 4-syllable words#TEMPERATURECategory:English 3-syllable words#TEMPERATURECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TEMPERATURE
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈtɛm.pəɹ.əˌt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈtɛm.pəɹˌt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈtɛm.pɹəˌt͡ʃɚ/, [ˈtʰɛm.pʰəɹˌt͡ʃɚ], [ˈtʰɛm.pʰɹəˌt͡ʃɚ], /ˈtɛm.pə.t͡ʃɚ/, [tʰɛm.pʰə.t͡ʃɚ]Category:English 4-syllable words#TEMPERATURECategory:English 3-syllable words#TEMPERATURECategory:English 3-syllable words#TEMPERATURECategory:English 3-syllable words#TEMPERATURECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TEMPERATURE
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈtem.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/Category:English 4-syllable words#TEMPERATURECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TEMPERATURE
- (Indic) IPA(key): /ʈɛmp(ə)ˈretʃə(r)/Category:English 4-syllable words#TEMPERATURECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TEMPERATURE
Noun
temperature (countable and uncountable, plural temperatures)Category:English lemmas#TEMPERATURECategory:English nouns#TEMPERATURECategory:English uncountable nouns#TEMPERATURECategory:English countable nouns#TEMPERATURECategory:English countable nouns#TEMPERATURECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TEMPERATURECategory:Pages with entries#TEMPERATURECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TEMPERATURE
- A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:temperature
- The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.Category:English terms with usage examples#TEMPERATURE
- The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.Category:English terms with usage examples#TEMPERATURE
- The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.Category:English terms with usage examples#TEMPERATURE
- 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, archived from the original on 6 August 2020, page 80:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#TEMPERATURE
- 2018 January 4, Janie Tankard Carnock, “Frigid Baltimore City schools: The racism we haven’t confronted”, in CNN:
- The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.Category:English terms with quotations#TEMPERATURE
- An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.
- You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.Category:English terms with usage examples#TEMPERATURE
- 1951, Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time:
- "Aren't you feeling so well this morning?" she asked him anxiously. "Do you think you've got a temperature?"Category:English terms with quotations#TEMPERATURE
- (thermodynamicsCategory:en:Thermodynamics#TEMPERATURE) 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.
- 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, , →ISSN, pages 106–141:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#TEMPERATURE
- (machine learningCategory:en:Machine learning#TEMPERATURE) A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.
- (figurative, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#TEMPERATURE) The general mood.
- 2005 August 20, Seth Schiesel, “Taking the Temperature of the Creative Body”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#TEMPERATURE
- 2025 September 13, Edward Luce, “A descent into mutual loathing”, in FT Weekend, page 7:
- [Stephen] Miller's words did not seem designed to lower the temperature.Category:English terms with quotations#TEMPERATURE
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#TEMPERATURE) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
- (now rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#TEMPERATURE, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#TEMPERATURE) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#TEMPERATURE
- 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, […]:
- […] 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 […]Category:English terms with quotations#TEMPERATURE
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
- Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature.
Quotations
- 2007, James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition, pages 106–108:
- Heat and temperature, although different, are intimately related. […] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change? […] if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.Category:English terms with quotations#TEMPERATURE
Hyponyms
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
- Néel temperature
- 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
Translations
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See also
- Customary: degrees Fahrenheit (°F), degrees Rankine (°R, measures absolute temperature)
- Metric: degrees Celsius/centigrade (°C), kelvins (K, measures absolute temperature)
- Thesaurus:temperature
- cool
- cold
- fresh
- fever
- hot
- lukewarm
- warm
References
temperature on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- ↑ “temperature”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tem.pe.raˈtu.re/Category:Italian 5-syllable words#TEMPERATURECategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#TEMPERATURE
- Rhymes: -ureCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ure#TEMPERATURECategory:Rhymes:Italian/ure/5 syllables#TEMPERATURE
- Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ra‧tù‧re
Noun
temperature f plCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#TEMPERATURECategory:Italian noun forms#TEMPERATURECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#TEMPERATURECategory:Pages with entries#TEMPERATURECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TEMPERATURE
Latin
Participle
temperātūreCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#TEMPERATURECategory:Latin participle forms#TEMPERATURECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#TEMPERATURECategory:Pages with entries#TEMPERATURECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TEMPERATURE
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Middle French terms borrowed from Latin#TEMPERATURECategory:Middle French terms derived from Latin#TEMPERATURE temperatura.
Noun
temperature f (plural temperatures)Category:Middle French lemmas#TEMPERATURECategory:Middle French nouns#TEMPERATURECategory:Middle French entries with incorrect language header#TEMPERATURECategory:Middle French feminine nouns#TEMPERATURECategory:Pages with entries#TEMPERATURECategory:Pages with 4 entries#TEMPERATURECategory:Middle French countable nouns#TEMPERATURE
- disposition; habitual state; temperament