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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'temperature' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions temperature 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 Translations:  Dutch: temperatuur(nl)m French: température(fr) German: erhí¶hte Temperatur Spanish: fiebre(es)f Etymology: From French température or temperatura, from the past participle stem of temperare "temper".        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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