temperature

Plural

temperatures

1. 1.A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.

   • The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
   • The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
   • The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.

2. 2.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.

3. 3.A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.

4. 4.An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.

   • You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
   • "Aren't you feeling so well this morning?" she asked him anxiously. "Do you think you've got a temperature?"

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