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English Dictionary: Temperature by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
temperature
n
  1. the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)
  2. the somatic sensation of cold or heat
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Temperature \Tem"per*a*ture\, n. (Physiol. & Med.)
      The degree of heat of the body of a living being, esp. of the
      human body; also (Colloq.), loosely, the excess of this over
      the normal (of the human body 98[f8]-99.5[f8] F., in the
      mouth of an adult about 98.4[f8]).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Temperature \Tem"per*a*ture\, n. [F. temp[82]rature, L.
      temperatura due measure, proportion, temper, temperament.]
      1. Constitution; state; degree of any quality.
  
                     The best composition and temperature is, to have
                     openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit,
                     dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to
                     feign, if there be no remedy.            --Bacon.
  
                     Memory depends upon the consistence and the
                     temperature of the brain.                  --I. Watts.
  
      2. Freedom from passion; moderation. [Obs.]
  
                     In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth,
                     Most goodly temperature you may descry. --Spenser.
  
      3. (Physics) Condition with respect to heat or cold,
            especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by
            the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as,
            the temperature of the air; high temperature; low
            temperature; temperature of freezing or of boiling.
  
      4. Mixture; compound. [Obs.]
  
                     Made a temperature of brass and iron together.
                                                                              --Holland.
  
      {Absolute temperature}. (Physics) See under {Absolute}.
  
      {Animal temperature} (Physiol.), the nearly constant
            temperature maintained in the bodies of warm-blooded
            (homoiothermal) animals during life. The ultimate source
            of the heat is to be found in the potential energy of the
            food and the oxygen which is absorbed from the air during
            respiration. See {Homoiothermal}.
  
      {Temperature sense} (Physiol.), the faculty of perceiving
            cold and warmth, and so of perceiving differences of
            temperature in external objects. --H. N. Martin.
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