Definition of "temperature" in English

noun

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.
   • The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.

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.

3. (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.

4. (machine learning) A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.

5. (figurative, colloquial) The general mood.

6. (obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.

7. (now rare, archaic) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.

   • Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature.