temperature

noun
tem·pe·ra·ture
/ˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/

A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.

Example

“The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.”

Other meanings

An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.
“You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.”
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.

Related words

biotemperature
cryotemperature
distemperature
humiture
multitemperature
overtemperature
palaeotemperature
paleotemperature
temperatural
temperatureless
land skin temperature
liquid nitrogen temperature

Example sentences

“How do I take a temperature?”
Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
“What's the temperature here?”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“The evaporation process creates a drop in temperature of several degrees.”
Tatoeba · Cangarejo · CC0

Word history

From Latin "temperātūra".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “temperature” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.