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/ˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/ · noun
A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer..
The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.
Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.
You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
"Aren't you feeling so well this morning?" she asked him anxiously. "Do you think you've got a temperature?"
In consequence, macroscopic amounts of matter in thermal contact with one another tend to be at the same temperature, a fact of sufficient fundamental importance to merit belated designation as the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics.
Use temperature when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Temperature means A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer..
Common synonyms include temperature.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
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