English > temperature: 2 senses > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment / environment (corresponding to its molecular activity). |
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| Attributes | cold | Having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration |
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| cool | Neither warm nor very cold |
| hot | Used of physical heat / heat |
| warm | Having or producing a comfortable / comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat |
| Narrower | Curie temperature, Curie point | The temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic |
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| absolute temperature | Temperature measured on the absolute scale |
| absolute zero | (cryogenics) the lowest temperature theoretically attainable (at which the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules is minimal) |
| body temperature, blood heat | Temperature of the body |
| boiling point, boil | The temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level |
| coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness | The absence of heat |
| dew point | The temperature at which the water vapor in the air / air becomes saturated and condensation begins |
| flash point, flashpoint | The lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid / liquid can be ignited in air |
| freezing point, melting point | The temperature below which a liquid / liquid turns into a solid |
| hotness, heat, high temperature | The presence of heat |
| mercury | Temperature measured by a mercury thermometer |
| room temperature | The normal temperature of room in which people live |
| simmer | temperature just below the boiling point |
| Broader | fundamental quantity, fundamental measure | One of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement |
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| physical property | Any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions |
| Spanish | temperatura |
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| Catalan | temperatura |
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