English-German translations for temperature

• Temperatur die
  Die Hochtemperaturverbrennung bleibt die Ausnahme. High-temperature incineration remains the exception.
  Die Temperatur auf der Erde steigt in erschreckendem Maße. The earth’s temperature is rising at an alarming rate.
  Sie wirken sich auf Körpergewicht und -temperatur aus. They affect body weight and temperature.
• erhöhte Temperatur die
• Fieber das
  Frau Ahlqvist liegt 2.000 Kilometer von hier mit hohem Fieber im Bett. Mrs Ahlqvist is lying in bed with a temperature some 2 000 kilometres from here.
  Bei über zwanzig dieser Gelegenheiten habe ich mir eine Erkältung zugezogen, ich habe mich sehr unwohl gefühlt, manchmal hatte ich sogar Fieber. On more than twenty of those occasions I have left with a cold and feeling quite unwell, sometimes even running a temperature.
• Temperament das

Definition of temperature

• A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer
• An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses
• 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. [http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055]
• The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament

Examples

• 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.
• You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.

Related words

• room-temperature
• temperature coefficient
• temperature inversion
• temperature coefficient of reactivity
• temperature swing adsorption
• temperature feeler
• temperature lag
• absolute temperature
• room temperature