° Fahrenheit

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° Fahrenheit

1. Alternative form of degrees Fahrenheit.

   Synonym: °F

   • 1882, The Medical Register of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut:

     […] that the rays emitted by solids at low temperature are invisible, but become red at 977° Fahrenheit, and augment in intensity, number and refragability at higher temperatures.

   • 1901 December 21, “Science and Industry”, in The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal‎^[1], volume LXXV, number 23, →OCLC, page 181, column 1:

     In winter the thermometer on the Mongolian plateau sometimes drops to –40° Fahrenheit, yet the camels wander about with no sense of suffering. On the other hand, the Russian explorer, Prejevalski, found the temperature of the ground in the Gobi Desert in summer to be more than 140° Fahrenheit, and the camels are apparently as indifferent to this degree of heat as they are to the winter cold.

   • 1954, Alfred Bester, “Fondly Fahrenheit”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 7, page 18:

     They're all cold. Cold as a witch's kiss. Mean temperatures of 40° Fahrenheit. Never get hotter than 70.