temperature
pronunciation
How to pronounce temperature in British English:
UK [ˈtemprətʃə(r)]
How to pronounce temperature in American English:
US [ˈtemprətʃər]
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- Noun:
- the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)
- the somatic sensation of cold or heat
Word Origin
- temperature
- temperature: [16] Like its relatives temper and temperament, temperature originally meant ‘mixture’ (Philemon Holland in 1601 wrote of ‘a temperature of brass and iron together’). The modern sense ‘degree of heat’ emerged in the late 17th century, and seems to have evolved from another early and now obsolete sense, ‘mild weather’. This reflected the ‘restraint’ strand of meaning in the word’s ultimate source, Latin temperāre, which also survives in English temperance and temperate.=> temper
- temperature (n.)
- mid-15c., "fact of being tempered, proper proportion;" 1530s, "character or nature of a substance," from Latin temperatura "a tempering, moderation," from temperatus, past participle of temperare "to be moderate; to mingle in due proportion" (see temper (v.)). Sense of "degree of heat or cold" first recorded 1670 (Boyle), from Latin temperatura, used in this sense by Galileo. Meaning "fever, high temperature" is attested from 1898.
Example
- 1. The best temperature is the one your infant prefers .
- 2. What is the average temperature in his hometown ?
- 3. Your temperature rises and your body shakes or trembles .
- 4. Yet in kenya there is no doubt that the icc has lowered the political temperature .
- 5. By raising oil prices , and the geopolitical temperature , opec encouraged new supply .