temperature

See also: température

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temperatura[1] (cf. also French température), from the past participle stem of tempero (“I temper”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛm.pɹə.t͡ʃə/, /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹə.t͡ʃə/, /ˈtɛm.pə.t͡ʃə/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛm.pəɹ.əˌt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈtɛm.pəɹˌt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈtɛm.pɹəˌt͡ʃɚ/, [ˈtʰɛm.pʰəɹˌt͡ʃɚ], [ˈtʰɛm.pʰɹəˌt͡ʃɚ]
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Noun

temperature (countable and uncountable, plural temperatures)

A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:temperature
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.
- 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:
  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.
An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
- 1951, Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time:
  "Aren't you feeling so well this morning?" she asked him anxiously. "Do you think you've got a temperature?"
(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.
(obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
(now rare, archaic) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:
  , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.136:
  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.
- 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p.5:
  […] 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 […]
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
  Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature.

Quotations

2007, James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition, pages 106–108:
Heat and temperature, although different, are intimately related. […] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change? […] if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.

Hyponyms

apparent temperature
color temperature
Hagedorn temperature
Planck temperature
planetary equilibrium temperature

Derived terms

land skin temperature
temperaturewise

Related terms

temperature inversion

Translations

a measure of cold or heat

Albanian: temperaturë (sq) f
Arabic: دَرَجَةْ الْحَرَارَة‎ f (darajat al-ḥarāra)
Armenian: ջերմաստիճան (hy) (ǰermastičan)
Assamese: ঊষ্ণতা (usnota)
Asturian: temperatura (ast) f
Atayal: kinmkilux
Azerbaijani: hərarət, istilik (az), temperatur
Basque: tenperatura
Belarusian: тэмперату́ра (be) f (tempjeratúra), тэмпэрату́ра f (temperatúra)
Bengali: তাপমাত্রা (bn) (tapômatra)
Bulgarian: температу́ра (bg) f (temperatúra)
Burmese: ပြဒါးချိန် (my) (pra.da:hkyin)
Catalan: temperatura (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 溫度／温度 (zh) (wēndù)
Czech: teplota (cs) f
Danish: temperatur (da) c
Dutch: temperatuur (nl) f
Esperanto: temperaturo (eo)
Estonian: temperatuur
Faroese: hitastig n
Finnish: lämpötila (fi)
French: température (fr)
Galician: temperatura (gl) f
Georgian: ტემპერატურა (ṭemṗeraṭura)
German: Temperatur (de) f
Greek: θερμοκρασία (el) f (thermokrasía)
Gujarati: તાપમાન (tāpmān)
Haitian Creole: tanperati
Hebrew: טֶמְפֶּרָטוּרָה‎ (he) f (temperatúra)
Hindi: तापमान (hi) m (tāpmān), टेम्परेचर (hi) m (ṭemparecar), टेंपरेचर (hi) m (ṭemprecar)
Hungarian: hőmérséklet (hu), hőfok (hu)
Icelandic: hitastig n
Indonesian: suhu (id), temperatur (id)
Interlingua: temperatura
Irish: teocht f
Italian: temperatura (it) f
Japanese: 温度 (ja) (おんど, ondo)
Kannada: ತಾಪಮಾನ (kn) (tāpamāna)
Kazakh: температура (kk) (temperatura)
Khmer: កំដៅ (kɑmdaw)
Korean: 온도(溫度) (ko) (ondo)
Kyrgyz: температура (ky) (temperatura)
Lao: ອຸນະພູມ (lo) (ʼu na phūm), ອຸນຫະພູມ (ʼun ha phūm), ອຸນນະພູມ (ʼun na phūm)
Latvian: temperatūra f
Lithuanian: temperatūra f
Macedonian: температу́ра f (temperatúra)
Malay: suhu (ms)
Malayalam: ഊഷ്മാവ് (ml) (ūṣmāvŭ), താപനില (ml) (tāpanila)
Maltese: temperatura f
Maori: pāmahana
Marathi: तापमान (tāpmān)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: халуун (mn) (xaluun), температур (temperatur)
Navajo: naʼalkid
Nepali: तापक्रम (tāpakram)
Norman: tempéthatuthe f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: temperatur (no) m
Nynorsk: temperatur m
Occitan: temperatura (oc) f
Oriya: ତାପମାତ୍ରା (tapômatra)
Pali: tejopamāṇa n, uṇhabhūmi f
Pashto: تودښت‎ (ps) m (tawdǝӽt), تودوخه‎ (ps) f (tawdóxa)
Persian: درجۀ حرارت‎ (fa) (dareje-ye harârat), دما‎ (fa) (damâ)
Polish: temperatura (pl) f
Portuguese: temperatura (pt) f
Punjabi: ਤਾਪਮਾਨ (tāpmān)
Romanian: temperatură (ro) f
Russian: температу́ра (ru) f (temperatúra)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: температу́ра f
Roman: temperatúra (sh) f
Sinhalese: උෂ්ණත්වය (si) (uṣṇatwaya)
Slovak: teplota f
Slovene: temperatura (sl) f
Spanish: temperatura (es) f
Sundanese: ᮞᮥᮠᮥ (suhu)
Swahili: halijoto
Swedish: temperatur (sv) c
Tagalog: temperatura (tl), kaintan
Tajik: дараҷаи харорат (darajayi xarorat), дамо (damo)
Tamil: வெப்பநிலை (ta) (veppanilai)
Telugu: ఉష్ణోగ్రత (te) (uṣṇōgrata)
Thai: อุณหภูมิ (th) (un-hà-puum)
Tibetan: དྲོ་ཚད (dro tshad), དྲོ་གྲང (dro grang), ཚ་གྲང (tsha grang)
Turkish: sıcaklık (tr)
Turkmen: temperatura
Ukrainian: температу́ра f (temperatúra)
Urdu: درجہ حرارت‎ (daraja harāra)
Uyghur: تېمپېراتۇرا‎ (tëmpëratura)
Uzbek: temperatura (uz)
Venetian: tenperadura f
Vietnamese: nhiệt độ (vi)
Welsh: tymheredd (cy)
Yiddish: טעמפּעראַטור‎ (temperatur)

elevated body temperature

Armenian: ջերմություն (hy) (ǰermutʿyun), տաքություն (hy) (takʿutʿyun)
Azerbaijani: qızdırma
Belarusian: тэмперату́ра (be) f (tempjeratúra), тэмпэрату́ра f (temperatúra), гара́чка f (haráčka), жар m (žar)
Bulgarian: температу́ра (bg) (temperatúra), тре́ска (bg) f (tréska)
Catalan: febre (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 發燒／发烧 (zh) (fāshāo), 熱／热 (zh) (rè)
Czech: teplota (cs) f
Dutch: verhoging (nl) f
Finnish: kuume (fi), lämpö (fi)
German: ^{(please verify)} erhöhte Temperatur f
Greek: θερμοκρασία (el) f (thermokrasía), πυρετός (el) m (pyretós)
Guaraní: akãnundu
Hindi: ताप (hi) m (tāp)
Hungarian: (chiefly above 37.5—38°C / 99.5—100.4°F) láz (hu), (mild, lower than that) hőemelkedés (hu)
Interlingua: febre
Italian: febbre (it) f
Japanese: 熱 (ja) (ねつ, netsu), 発熱 (ja) (はつねつ, hatsunetsu)
Korean: 열(熱) (ko) (yeol), 발열(發熱) (ko) (baryeol)
Latin: febris (la) f
Macedonian: температу́ра f (temperatúra)
Middle English: hete
Polish: gorączka (pl) f
Portuguese: febre (pt) f
Romanian: temperatură (ro) f, febră (ro) f
Russian: температу́ра (ru) f (temperatúra), жар (ru) m (žar), горя́чка (ru) (gorjáčka)
Sanskrit: ताप (sa) m (tāpa)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: температу́ра f, вру̀ћица f
Roman: temperatúra (sh) f, vrùćica f
Spanish: fiebre (es) f
Swedish: feber (sv)
Tajik: харорат (xarorat)
Tamil: காய்ச்சல் (ta) (kāyccal)
Turkish: ateş (tr)
Ukrainian: температу́ра f (temperatúra), гаря́чка f (harjáčka), жар m (žar)
Uzbek: harorat (uz)

the temperature of the immediate environment

Armenian: ջերմաստիճան (hy) (ǰermastičan)
Azerbaijani: hərarət, istilik (az)
Belarusian: тэмперату́ра (be) f (tempjeratúra), тэмпэрату́ра f (temperatúra)
Bulgarian: температу́ра (bg) f (temperatúra)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 氣溫／气温 (zh) (qìwēn)
Finnish: lämpötila (fi)
German: Temperatur (de) f
Greek: θερμοκρασία (el) f (thermokrasía) (thermokrasía)
Japanese: 気温 (ja) (きおん, kion)
Korean: 기온(氣溫) (ko) (gion)
Macedonian: температу́ра f (temperatúra)
Malayalam: താപനില (ml) (tāpanila)
Navajo: naʼalkid
Portuguese: temperatura (pt) f
Romanian: temperatură (ro) f
Russian: температу́ра (ru) f (temperatúra)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: температу́ра f
Roman: temperatúra (sh) f
Spanish: temperatura (es) f
Swedish: temperatur (sv) c
Telugu: ఉష్ణోగ్రత (te) (uṣṇōgrata)
Turkish: sıcaklık (tr)
Ukrainian: температу́ра f (temperatúra)

in thermodynamics

Bengali: তাপমাত্রা (bn) (tapômatra)
Finnish: lämpötila (fi)
German: Temperatur (de) f
Greek: θερμοκρασία (el) f (thermokrasía)
Japanese: 熱 (ja) (ねつ, netsu)
Korean: 열(熱) (ko) (yeol)
Macedonian: температу́ра f (temperatúra)
Navajo: naʼalkid
Portuguese: temperatura (pt) f
Russian: температу́ра (ru) f (temperatúra)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: температу́ра f
Roman: temperatúra (sh) f
Tamil: வெப்பநிலை (ta) (veppanilai)
Turkish: sıcaklık (tr)
Ukrainian: температу́ра f (temperatúra)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} temperatur (id), ^{(please verify)} suhu (id)
Tupinambá: (t-) ^{(please verify)} akuba

References

temperature on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/temperature?s=t

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tem.pe.raˈtu.re/
Rhymes: -ure
Hyphenation: tem‧pe‧ra‧tù‧re

Noun

temperature f pl

plural of temperatura

Latin

Participle

temperātūre

vocative masculine singular of temperātūrus

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temperatura.

Noun

temperature f (plural temperatures)

disposition; habitual state; temperament

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