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temperature en · NOUN

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[ˈtʰɪ̟m.pʰ(ɹ)əˌt͡ʃɚ] Southern US, African-American Vernacular, pin–pen merger
[ˈtʰɛm.pʰ(ɹ)əˌt͡ʃɚ] (Canada, General-American)
/ˈtɛm.pɚ.(ə)ˌt͡ʃɚ/ (Canada, General-American)
/ˈtem.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/ (Australia)
/ˈtɛm.p(ɹ)əˌt͡ʃɚ/ (Canada, General-American)
/ˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
[ˈtʰɛm.pʰɚ.əˌt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈtʰɛm.pʰɹ̩.əˌt͡ʃɚ] (Canada, General-American)
[ˈtʰɪ̟m.pʰɚ.əˌt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈtʰɪ̟m.pʰɹ̩.əˌt͡ʃɚ] Southern US, African-American Vernacular, pin–pen merger
[ˈtʰɛm.pʰə.ɹət͡ʃə] (Received-Pronunciation)
[ˈtʰem.pʰə.ɹə.t͡ʃə] (Australia)
[ˈtʰɛm.pʰɹə.t͡ʃə] (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈtɪm.p(ɹ)əˌt͡ʃɚ/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, pin–pen merger
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[ˈtʰem.pʰɹə.t͡ʃə] (Australia)
/ˈtɪm.pɚ.(ə)ˌt͡ʃɚ/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, pin–pen merger

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temperātūra (cf. also French température), from the past participle stem of tempero (“to temper”).

Meanings

(countable, uncountable) A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
- The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
- The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
- The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning. 2018 January 4, Janie Tankard Carnock, “Frigid Baltimore City schools: The racism we haven’t confronted”, in CNN:
- Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature 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. 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020, page 80:
- The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.
(countable, uncountable) An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.
- "Aren't you feeling so well this morning?" she asked him anxiously. "Do you think you've got a temperature?" 1951, Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time:
- You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
(countable, uncountable) 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.
- In consequence, macroscopic amounts of matter in thermal contact with one another tend to be at the same temperature, a fact of sufficient fundamental importance to merit belated designation as the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics. 2000 September, Clinton D. Stoner, “Inquiries into the Nature of Free Energy and Entropy in Respect to Biochemical Thermodynamics”, in Entropy, volume 2, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 106–141:
(countable, qualifier:machine learning, uncountable) A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.
(colloquial, countable, figuratively, uncountable) The general mood.
- But it is both easier and more accurate to take the industry's true temperature at small private gatherings like a conference organized by the Ziff Davis publishing company in northern California last week. 2005 August 20, Seth Schiesel, “Taking the Temperature of the Creative Body”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- [Stephen] Miller's words did not seem designed to lower the temperature. 2025 September 13, Edward Luce, “A descent into mutual loathing”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:
(countable, obsolete, uncountable) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
(archaic, countable, uncountable) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
- […]that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy foundation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind […] 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, […]:
- Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature. 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II
- Our intemperence it is that pulls so many several incurable diseases on our heads, that hastens old age, perverts our temperature, and brings upon us sudden death. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

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temperatures	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (259)

pa ਤਾਪਮਾਨ (a measure of cold or heat) · cy gwres (elevated body temperature) · tg харорат (elevated body temperature) · km គ្រុន (elevated body temperature) · el πυρετός (elevated body temperature) · pt temperatura (in thermodynamics) · oc temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · lv temperatūra (a measure of cold or heat) · bho तापमान (a measure of cold or heat) · ur پارَہ (a measure of cold or heat) · tr ateş (elevated body temperature) · nn temperatur (a measure of cold or heat) · kk температура (a measure of cold or heat) · ml താപനില (the temperature of the immediate environment) · hu láz (elevated body temperature) · ro temperatură (the temperature of the immediate environment) · de erhöhte Temperatur (elevated body temperature) · km កំដៅ (a measure of cold or heat) · ro temperatură (a measure of cold or heat) · nan-hbl 溫度 /温度 (a measure of cold or heat) · el θερμοκρασία (in thermodynamics) · be тэмпэрату́ра (the temperature of the immediate environment) · pl temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · yue 溫度 /温度 (a measure of cold or heat) · mk температу́ра (the temperature of the immediate environment) · ur تاپ (elevated body temperature) · an temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · cs teplota (elevated body temperature) · hi ज्वर (elevated body temperature) · ko 열 (elevated body temperature) · or ତାପମାତ୍ରା (a measure of cold or heat) · el θερμοκρασία (the temperature of the immediate environment) · el θερμοκρασία (elevated body temperature) · hu hőemelkedés (elevated body temperature) · la febris (elevated body temperature) · be тэмперату́ра (elevated body temperature) · bg температу́ра (a measure of cold or heat) · uk температу́ра (a measure of cold or heat) · tr sıcaklık (the temperature of the immediate environment) · gl temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · mr तापमान (a measure of cold or heat) · ko 온도 (a measure of cold or heat) · pt temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · sq ethe (elevated body temperature) · uz harorat (elevated body temperature) · it febbre (elevated body temperature) · vec tenperadura (a measure of cold or heat) · my ပြဒါးချိန် (a measure of cold or heat) · fi lämpötila (the temperature of the immediate environment) · uz harorat (a measure of cold or heat) · fi kuume (elevated body temperature) · bn তাপমাত্রা (a measure of cold or heat) · it temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · hy ջերմաստիճան (the temperature of the immediate environment) · pi tejopamāṇa (a measure of cold or heat) · kk қызба (elevated body temperature) · fa-ira تَب (elevated body temperature) · ug تېمپېراتۇرا (a measure of cold or heat) · fa-ira دَما (a measure of cold or heat) · enm hete (elevated body temperature) · uk температу́ра (elevated body temperature) · ru жар (elevated body temperature) · tk temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · gu તાપમાન (a measure of cold or heat) · sk horúčka (elevated body temperature) · he טֶמְפֶּרָטוּרָה (a measure of cold or heat) · ast temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · cs teplota (a measure of cold or heat) · vi nhiệt độ (a measure of cold or heat) · is hiti (elevated body temperature) · ne तापक्रम (a measure of cold or heat) · be тэмперату́ра (a measure of cold or heat) · az istilik (the temperature of the immediate environment) · ru горя́чка (elevated body temperature) · ba биҙгәк (elevated body temperature) · mk температу́ра (in thermodynamics) · sh температу́ра (a measure of cold or heat) · mk температу́ра (a measure of cold or heat) · lo ອຸນນະພູມ (a measure of cold or heat) · is hitastig (a measure of cold or heat) · lt karščiavimas (elevated body temperature) · nl temperatuur (a measure of cold or heat) · ru температу́ра (in thermodynamics) · ia febre (elevated body temperature) · mn халуун (a measure of cold or heat) · id suhu (a measure of cold or heat) · ca febre (elevated body temperature) · mk треска (elevated body temperature) · sh gròznica (elevated body temperature) · id demam (elevated body temperature) · hu hőmérséklet (a measure of cold or heat) · de Temperatur (in thermodynamics) · ta காய்ச்சல் (elevated body temperature) · ms demam (elevated body temperature) · uk температу́ра (in thermodynamics) · ru температу́ра (the temperature of the immediate environment) · ru температу́ра (elevated body temperature) · fi lämpötila (in thermodynamics) · eu tenperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · ta வெப்பநிலை (a measure of cold or heat) · ta வெப்பநிலை (in thermodynamics) · de Temperatur (the temperature of the immediate environment) · hy ջերմաստիճան (a measure of cold or heat) · sa ताप (elevated body temperature) · fi lämpötila (a measure of cold or heat) · ur بُخار (elevated body temperature) · hu hőfok (a measure of cold or heat) · bg тре́ска (elevated body temperature) · tl temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · ja 熱 (elevated body temperature) · az hərarət (the temperature of the immediate environment) · bo དྲོ་གྲང (a measure of cold or heat) · ml താപനില (a measure of cold or heat) · sq temperaturë (a measure of cold or heat) · lt temperatūra (a measure of cold or heat) · si උෂ්ණත්වය (a measure of cold or heat) · nv naʼalkid (a measure of cold or heat) · et palavik (elevated body temperature) · az qızdırma (elevated body temperature) · ja 熱 (in thermodynamics) · lo ອຸນະພູມ (a measure of cold or heat) · ka ტემპერატურა (a measure of cold or heat) · de Fieber (elevated body temperature) · sh temperatúra (a measure of cold or heat) · yue 氣溫 /气温 (the temperature of the immediate environment) · cmn 發燒 /发烧 (elevated body temperature) · bg температура (in thermodynamics) · ca temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · he קַדַּחַת (elevated body temperature) · sk teplota (a measure of cold or heat) · nb feber (elevated body temperature) · mn температур (a measure of cold or heat) · hi तापमान (in thermodynamics) · mt temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · ko 기온 (the temperature of the immediate environment) · be тэмпэрату́ра (a measure of cold or heat) · ja 発熱 (elevated body temperature) · fa-ira دَرِجِهٔ حَرارَت (a measure of cold or heat) · ar حُمَّى (elevated body temperature) · ug قىزىتما (elevated body temperature) · pi uṇhabhūmi (a measure of cold or heat) · es temple (a measure of cold or heat) · sv feber (elevated body temperature) · tay kinmkilux (a measure of cold or heat) · te ఉష్ణోగ్రత (a measure of cold or heat) · sh температу́ра (in thermodynamics) · ro febră (elevated body temperature) · lv drudzis (elevated body temperature) · hi बुख़ार (elevated body temperature) · bg температу́ра (elevated body temperature) · uz isitma (elevated body temperature) · te ఉష్ణోగ్రత (the temperature of the immediate environment) · tg дараҷаи ҳарорат (a measure of cold or heat) · id temperatur (a measure of cold or heat) · ur دَرْجَۂ تَپِش (a measure of cold or heat) · sh vrùćica (elevated body temperature) · ka ცხელება (elevated body temperature) · hy ջերմություն (elevated body temperature) · bo དྲོ་ཚད (a measure of cold or heat) · cs horečka (elevated body temperature) · fr fièvre (elevated body temperature) · fi lämpö (elevated body temperature) · uz bezgak (elevated body temperature) · sw halijoto (a measure of cold or heat) · hi तापमान (a measure of cold or heat) · de Temperatur (a measure of cold or heat) · ia temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · yi פֿיבער (elevated body temperature) · ky калтыратма (elevated body temperature) · ga fiabhras (elevated body temperature) · be жар (elevated body temperature) · tk gyzzyrma (elevated body temperature) · sh temperatúra (elevated body temperature) · sh температу́ра (elevated body temperature) · pl gorączka (elevated body temperature) · uz temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · az hərarət (a measure of cold or heat) · pt temperatura (the temperature of the immediate environment) · lo ໄຂ້ (elevated body temperature) · mi pāmahana (a measure of cold or heat) · kn ತಾಪಮಾನ (a measure of cold or heat) · az temperatur (a measure of cold or heat) · vi sốt (elevated body temperature) · nb temperatur (a measure of cold or heat) · cmn 溫度 /温度 (a measure of cold or heat) · nl verhoging (elevated body temperature) · fo hitastig (a measure of cold or heat) · th ไข้ (elevated body temperature) · eo temperaturo (a measure of cold or heat) · el θερμοκρασία (a measure of cold or heat) · my အဖျား (elevated body temperature) · nrf tempéthatuthe (a measure of cold or heat) · bn তাপমাত্রা (in thermodynamics) · sv temperatur (the temperature of the immediate environment) · sh temperatúra (in thermodynamics) · fr température (a measure of cold or heat) · as ঊষ্ণতা (a measure of cold or heat) · bo ཚ་གྲང (a measure of cold or heat) · ko 열 (in thermodynamics) · ml ഊഷ്മാവ് (a measure of cold or heat) · sh гро̀зница (elevated body temperature) · es fiebre (elevated body temperature) · ga teocht (a measure of cold or heat) · th อุณหภูมิ (a measure of cold or heat) · sh temperatúra (the temperature of the immediate environment) · sh вру̀ћица (elevated body temperature) · tr sıcaklık (in thermodynamics) · su suhu (a measure of cold or heat) · tg дамо (a measure of cold or heat) · sl temperatura (a measure of cold or heat) · ja 温度 (a measure of cold or heat) · be тэмперату́ра (the temperature of the immediate environment) · tr sıcaklık (a measure of cold or heat) · ht tanperati (a measure of cold or heat) · sv temperatur (a measure of cold or heat) · ky температура (a measure of cold or heat) · ky безгек (elevated body temperature) · tt бизгәк (elevated body temperature) · nl koorts (elevated body temperature) · ru температу́ра (a measure of cold or heat) · ro temperatură (elevated body temperature) · tl kaintan (a measure of cold or heat) · nv naʼalkid (in thermodynamics) · ur پارا (a measure of cold or heat) · et temperatuur (a measure of cold or heat) · hy տաքություն (elevated body temperature) · pl ciepłota (a measure of cold or heat) · ja 気温 (the temperature of the immediate environment) · ms suhu (a measure of cold or heat) · hi तापमान (the temperature of the immediate environment) · es temperatura (the temperature of the immediate environment) · ko 발열 (elevated body temperature) · uk температу́ра (the temperature of the immediate environment) · az istilik (a measure of cold or heat) · mk температу́ра (elevated body temperature) · uk гаря́чка (elevated body temperature) · cmn 氣溫 /气温 (the temperature of the immediate environment) · sl vročina (elevated body temperature) · be гара́чка (elevated body temperature) · be тэмпэрату́ра (elevated body temperature) · bg температу́ра (the temperature of the immediate environment) · da feber (elevated body temperature) · hi ताप (elevated body temperature) · alt температура (a measure of cold or heat) · da temperatur (a measure of cold or heat) · cmn 熱 /热 (elevated body temperature) · ps تودښت (a measure of cold or heat) · uk жар (elevated body temperature) · cy tymheredd (a measure of cold or heat) · nv naʼalkid (the temperature of the immediate environment) · ps تودوخه (a measure of cold or heat) · tg таб (elevated body temperature) · pt febre (elevated body temperature) · yi טעמפּעראַטור (a measure of cold or heat) · sh температу́ра (the temperature of the immediate environment) · ar دَرَجَةْ الْحَرَارَة (a measure of cold or heat) · lo ອຸນຫະພູມ (a measure of cold or heat) · ur دَرْجَۂ حَرارَت (a measure of cold or heat) · es temperatura (a measure of cold or heat)

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