temperature
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[edit] Etymology
From French température or Latin temperatura, from the past participle stem of temperare ‘temper’.
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temperature (plural temperatures)
- (obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
- (now rare, archaic) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 136:
- 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.
- 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p.5:
- [...] 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 [...].
- 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.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 136:
- A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
- The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
- 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.
- (when not used in relation with something) The temperature(1) of the immediate environment.
- The temperature dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
- (thermodynamics) 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. [1]
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- 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°.
[edit] See also
- Customary: degrees Fahrenheit (°F), degrees Rankine (°R, measures absolute temperature)
- Metric: degrees Celsius/centigrade (°C), kelvins (K, measures absolute temperature)
- Wikisaurus:temperature
[edit] Translations
A measure of cold or hot
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Having a higher than normal or elevated body temperature
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The temperature of the immediate environment
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in thermodynamics
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[edit] Italian
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temperature f. pl.
- plural of temperatura
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temperātūre
- vocative masculine singular of temperātūrus
