Temperature is a physical property of a system that underlies the common notions of hot and cold; something that is hotter generally has the greater temperature.
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Temperature measurement using modern scientific thermometers and temperature scales goes back at least as far as the early 18th century, when Gabriel Fahrenheit adapted a ...
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Temperature A convenient operational definition of temperature is that it is a measure of the average translational kinetic energy associated with the disordered microscopic motion ...
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noun . 1. a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value.
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