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Meaning:

Noun:

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

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