Borrowed fromLatintemperātūra^[1] (cf. alsoFrenchtempérature), from the past participle stem oftempero(“I temper”).

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈtɛmp(ə)ɹət͡ʃə/,/ˈtɛm.pə.t͡ʃə/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ˈtɛmpəɹ(ə)ˌt͡ʃɚ/,/ˈtɛmpɹəˌt͡ʃɚ/,/ˈtɛmpət͡ʃɚ/,[ˈtʰɛm.pʰəɹˌt͡ʃɚ],[ˈtʰɛm.pʰɹəˌt͡ʃɚ]

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• (Indic)IPA^(key):/ˈʈemp(a)ɾeːt͡ʃa(ɾ)/

temperature (countable anduncountable,pluraltemperatures)

1. Ameasure of cold or heat, often measurable with athermometer.

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:temperature

   The boilingtemperature of pure water is 100 degreesCelsius.

   Thetemperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.

   The most accurate way to take yourtemperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.

   • 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8835, page80:

     Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface bytemperature 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.

2. An elevated body temperature, as present infever and manyillnesses.

   You have atemperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.

   • 1951, Josephine Tey,The Daughter of Time:

     "Aren't you feeling so well this morning?" she asked him anxiously. "Do you think you've got atemperature?"

3. (thermodynamics) A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the randomactual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents.
   • 2000 September, Clinton D. Stoner, “Inquiries into the Nature of Free Energy and Entropy in Respect to Biochemical Thermodynamics”, inEntropy‎^[1], volume 2, number 3,→DOI,→ISSN, pages106–141:

     In consequence, macroscopic amounts of matter in thermal contact with one another tend to be at the sametemperature, a fact of sufficient fundamental importance to merit belated designation as the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics.

4. (machine learning) Aparameter that controls the degree ofrandomness of theoutput.
5. (figurative,colloquial) The generalmood.
   • 2005 August 20, Seth Schiesel, “Taking the Temperature of the Creative Body”, inThe New York Times‎^[2],→ISSN:

     But it is both easier and more accurate to take the industry's truetemperature at small private gatherings like a conference organized by the Ziff Davis publishing company in northern California last week.

6. (obsolete) The state or condition of beingtempered or moderated.
7. (nowrare,archaic) The balance ofhumours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this;temperament.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton],The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire:[…] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps,→OCLC:

     Our intemperence it is that pulls so many several incurable diseases on our heads, that hastens old age, perverts ourtemperature, and brings upon us sudden death.

   • 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne],The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume(please specify |volume=I to IX), London:[…] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:

     […]that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy foundation andtemperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind[…]

   • 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid,The Art of Love, Book II:

     Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angrytemperature.

• 2007, James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd,An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition, pages106–108:

  Heat andtemperature, although different, are intimately related.[…] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think theirtemperatures would change?[…] if thetemperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the correspondingtemperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.

• temperature inversion

• Customary: degreesFahrenheit (°F), degreesRankine (°R, measures absolute temperature)
• Metric: degreesCelsius/centigrade (°C),kelvins (K, measures absolute temperature)
• Thesaurus:temperature
• cool
• cold
• fresh
• fever
• hot
• lukewarm
• warm

•  temperature on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key):/tem.pe.raˈtu.re/
• Rhymes:-ure
• Hyphenation:tem‧pe‧ra‧tù‧re

temperature f pl

1. plural oftemperatura

temperātūre

1. vocativemasculinesingular oftemperātūrus

Borrowed fromLatintemperatura.

temperature f (pluraltemperatures)

1. disposition; habitual state;temperament