temperature

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
  2. Noun.  (context, now) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
  3. Noun.  A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
  4. Noun.  An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
  5. Noun.  (italbrac, when not used in relation with something) The temperature(1) of the immediate environment.
  6. Noun.  (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].

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.