different between negligence vs coldness

English

Etymology

From Middle English necligence, negligence, from Old French negligence, from Latin neglegentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??l?d???ns/
• Hyphenation: neg?li?gence

Noun

negligence (usually uncountable, plural negligences)

1. The state of being negligent.
2. (law, singular only) The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.
3. (law, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.

Usage notes

• The breach of a duty of care is one element of the tort of negligence, but is also called negligence; one must therefore take care to clarify what is meant.

Related terms

• negligent
• neglect
• endangerment

Translations

Further reading

• negligence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle French

Noun

negligence f (uncountable)

1. negligence (state of being negligent)

English

Etymology

From Middle English coldnesse, from Old English cealdness, cealdnys (“coldness”), equivalent to cold +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: k?ld?n?s, IPA^(key): /?ko?ldn?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??ldn?s/
• Hyphenation: cold?ness

Noun

coldness (countable and uncountable, plural coldnesses)

1. The relative lack of heat.
2. The sensation resulting from exposure to low temperatures.
3. Limited enthusiasm or affection; coolness.
4. (physics) The reciprocal of absolute temperature.
   • 1969, W. A. Day and Morton E. Gurtin, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 1, Springer, pages 26–32:

     The coldness is the reciprocal of absolute temperature.

   • 1971, Ingo Müller, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 41, Issue 5, Springer, pages 319-332:

     (article title) The coldness, a universal function in thermoelastic bodies.

   • 1972, Ingo Müller, Entropy, Absolute Temperature, and Coldness in Thermodynamics: Boundary Conditions in Porous Materials Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Springer-Verlag, Wein GMBH, page 3:

     This function will be called the coldness, its equilibrium value will be the reciprocal of absolute temperature.

   • 1975, J. Meixner, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 57, Issue 3, Springer, pages 281-290:

     (article title) Coldness and Temperature.

   • 1995, Claude Garrod, Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Oxford University Press, page 111:

     ? is called the affinity, ? the inverse temperature or coldness, and ? the free expansion coefficient.

Translations

See also

• coldness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia