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° Fahrenheit en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of degree Fahrenheit.
   alt of degree Fahrenheit
   • […] that the rays emitted by solids at low temperature are invisible, but become red at 977° Fahrenheit, and augment in intensity, number and refragability at higher temperatures. 1882, The Medical Register of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut:
   • Temperature / […] 30° Fahrenheit 70° F 100° F 2021 June 18, Jason Samenow, Dylan Moriarty, Laris Karklis, Diana Leonard, Artur Galocha, “How a heat dome is pushing extreme temperatures to new heights in the West”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2021:
   • They're all cold. Cold as a witch's kiss. Mean temperatures of 40° Fahrenheit. Never get hotter than 70. 1954, Alfred Bester, “Fondly Fahrenheit”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 7, page 18:
   • In winter the thermometer on the Mongolian plateau sometimes drops to –40° Fahrenheit, yet the camels wander about with no sense of suffering. On the other hand, the Russian explorer, Prejevalski, found the temperature of the ground in the Gobi Desert in summer to be more than 140° Fahrenheit, and the camels are apparently as indifferent to this degree of heat as they are to the winter cold. 1901 December 21, “Science and Industry”, in The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal, volume LXXV, number 23, →OCLC, page 181, column 1:

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mul:°F · mul:℉

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