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Temperature refers to how hot or cold something is. When you think you might have a fever, you take your temperature to see if it is higher than normal.

Temperature can also mean hotness and coldness in terms of excitement. Before offering a discount on its new one-legged jeans, the clothing manufacturer surveyed 200 loyal customers over the phone, to gauge the likely temperature of the response to their marketing ploy.

DEFINITIONS OF: temperature

n the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)

Types:: show 23 types...; hide 23 types...; absolute temperature
temperature measured on the absolute scale; absolute zero
(cryogenics) the lowest temperature theoretically attainable (at which the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules is minimal); 0 Kelvin or -273.15 centigrade or -459.67 Fahrenheit; Curie point, Curie temperature
the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic; dew point
the temperature at which the water vapor in the air becomes saturated and condensation begins; flash point, flashpoint
the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air; freezing point, melting point
the temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid; boil, boiling point
the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; mercury
temperature measured by a mercury thermometer; room temperature
the normal temperature of room in which people live; simmer
temperature just below the boiling point; blood heat, body temperature
temperature of the body; normally 98.6 F or 37 C in humans; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health; cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature
the absence of heat; heat, high temperature, hotness
the presence of heat; basal body temperature, basal temperature
body temperature in the morning before rising or moving about or eating anything; chill, gelidity, iciness
coldness due to a cold environment; chilliness, coolness, nip
the property of being moderately cold; frostiness
coldness as evidenced by frost; cool
the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature; calefaction, incalescence
the property of being warming; fieriness, red heat
the heat or the color of fire; torridity
extreme heat; warmness, warmth
the quality of having a moderate degree of heat; white heat
the hotness of something heated until it turns white

Type of:: physical property
any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions; fundamental measure, fundamental quantity
one of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement

n the somatic sensation of cold or heat

Types:: heat, warmth
the sensation caused by heat energy; cold, coldness
the sensation produced by low temperatures; comfort zone
the temperature range (between 28 and 30 degrees Centigrade) at which the naked human body is able to maintain a heat balance without shivering or sweating

Type of:: somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia
the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations

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