EGAVE

temperature

About 85.79 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
    The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
  2. noun An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.
    You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.
  5. noun The general mood.
  6. noun The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
  7. noun The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.

Similar words

thermic thermal thermometer climate weather water celsius velocity cold heating

Often followed by

of and is in at for range was to

Word family

temperatures

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