Definitions for temperature

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temperature tem·per·a·ture

Spelling: [tem-per-uh-cher, -choo r, -pruh-, -per-cher, -ch

IPA: /ˈtɛm pər ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, -prə-, -pər tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər/

Temperature is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 377 anagrams from letters in temperature (aeeemprrttu).

Definitions for temperature

noun

1. a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value. The temperature of two systems is the same when the systems are in thermal equilibrium.
2. Physiology, Pathology. the degree of heat in a living body, normally about 98.6°F (37°C) in humans. the excess of this above the normal.
3. Obsolete. mildness, as of the weather.
4. Obsolete. temperament.

Origin of temperature

First recorded in 1525-35, temperature is from the Latin word temperātūra a tempering. See temperate, -ure

Examples for temperature

The morning was clear, with a temperature at sunrise of 24°.

The caregiver Fatu had acted fast – the temperature reading on the Thursday night was high.

She had been ailing for a month, and now she was down with a temperature.

The temperature of the spring was 58°, while that of the river was 51°.

Not quite, but at one point the temperature registered 29 below zero, with 21 inches of snow.

At a pressure of 20 pounds, the temperature will be about 260 degrees.

Drew Servis, 24, was walking home Sunday night and recalls the temperature well below freezing.

“We restored our brand, showed we could govern, we took the temperature down,” says Feehery.

The temperature of the oven is important in baking potatoes.

There was, I am told, a two-hour delay caused by concerns about the temperature of the fuel.