Fahrenheit

English

Etymology

From German Fahrenheit, named after Prussian scientist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.

Adjective

Fahrenheit (not comparable)

1. Describing a temperature scale originally defined as having 0 °F as the lowest temperature obtainable with a mixture of ice and salt, and 96 °F as the temperature of the human body, and now defined with 32 °F equal to 0 °C, and each degree Fahrenheit equal to 5/9 of a degree Celsius or 5/9 kelvin.

   Coordinate terms: Celsius, kelvin

Translations

temperature scale

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 華氏／华氏 (waa⁴ si⁶), 华氏 (waa⁴ si⁶)

  Mandarin: 華氏／华氏 (zh) (Huáshì), 华氏 (zh) (Huáshì)

• Esperanto: Farenhejto
• Finnish: Fahrenheit
• French: Fahrenheit (fr)
• German: Fahrenheit (de) n
• Japanese: 華氏 (ja) (かし, Kashi)
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• Korean: 화씨 (Hwassi) (華氏 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: Фаренгейт (ky) (Farengeyt)
• Macedonian: Фаренхајт (Farenhajt)
• Portuguese: fahrenheit
• Russian: Фаренге́йт (ru) m (Farengéjt)
• Spanish: Fahrenheit
• Tagalog: Parenhayt, Parenhait

Further reading

• Fahrenheit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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German

Etymology

Named after Prussian scientist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaːʁənhaɪ̯t/
• Hyphenation: Fah‧ren‧heit

• Audio:

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Noun

Fahrenheit n (genitive Fahrenheit, no plural)

1. Fahrenheit

Further reading

• “Fahrenheit” in Duden online