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noun
- (obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
- (obsolete) temperament, Temperament.
- 1759: that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy foundation and of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind " Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p.5)
- A measure of cold or hot. A thermometer can usually be used to determine its value.
- The boiling of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
- Having a higher than normal or elevated body temperature.
- You have a ; I think you should stay home today. You"re sick.
- (italbrac, when not used in relation with something) The temperature(1) of the immediate environment.
- The dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
- A feeling how much one want to do; a fever.
- (context, thermodynamics) 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. http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055
Etymology: From French température or temperatura, from the past participle stem of temperare "temper".
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