different between temperature vs thermonuclear

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temperatura (cf. also French température), from the past participle stem of tempero (“I temper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?mp(?)??t??(?)/, /?t?mp(?)???t???(?)/, /?t?mp?(?)t??(?)/, /?t?mp?(?)?t???(?)/

Noun

temperature (countable and uncountable, plural temperatures)

1. A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
2. An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
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. [1]
4. (obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
5. (now rare, archaic) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
   • , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.136:

     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.

   • 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p.5:

     […] 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 […]

   • 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:

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

Quotations

• 2007, James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition, pages 106–108:

  Heat and temperature, although different, are intimately related. […] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change? […] if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• land skin temperature

Related terms

• temperature inversion

Translations

See also

• Customary: degrees Fahrenheit (°F), degrees Rankine (°R, measures absolute temperature)
• Metric: degrees Celsius/centigrade (°C), kelvins (K, measures absolute temperature)
• Thesaurus:temperature
• cool
• cold
• fresh
• fever
• hot
• lukewarm
• warm

References

• temperature on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

temperature f pl

1. plural of temperatura

Latin

Participle

temper?t?re

1. vocative masculine singular of temper?t?rus

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temperatura.

Noun

temperature f (plural temperatures)

1. disposition; habitual state; temperament

English

Alternative forms

• thermo-nuclear

Etymology

thermo- +? nuclear

Adjective

thermonuclear (not comparable)

1. Of, or relating to the fusion of atomic nuclei at high temperatures.
2. Of, or relating to the use of atomic weapons based on such fusion, especially as distinguished from those based on fission.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

thermonuclear (plural thermonuclears)

1. (military) A thermonuclear weapon.

Synonyms

• hydrogen bomb
• H-bomb

See also

• pycnonuclear