temperaturenoun/ˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/

• 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.
• 2

  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?"
• 3

  natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents.

  • In consequence, macroscopic amounts of matter in thermal contact with one another tend to be at the same temperature, a fact of sufficient fundamental importance to merit belated designation as the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics.
• 4

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

• 5

  The general mood.

  • But it is both easier and more accurate to take the industry's true temperature at small private gatherings like a conference organized by the Ziff Davis publishing company in northern California last week.
  • [Stephen] Miller's words did not seem designed to lower the temperature.
• 6

  obsoleteThe state or condition of being tempered or moderated.

• 7

  archaicThe balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.

  • 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.
  • […]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 […]