different between temperature vs thermoscope

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

Etymology

thermo- +? -scope

Noun

thermoscope (plural thermoscopes)

1. A scientific instrument that measures changes in temperature.

Derived terms

• thermoscopic

Translations