English-Swedish translations for temperature

• temperatur
  Högtemperatursförbränning är ett undantag.High-temperature incineration remains the exception.
  Jordens temperatur ökar med en alarmerande hastighet.The earth’s temperature is rising at an alarming rate.
  De påverkar kroppsvikt och temperatur.They affect body weight and temperature.
• feber en
  Fru Ahlqvist ligger i hög feber 2 000 kilometer härifrån.Mrs Ahlqvist is lying in bed with a temperature some 2 000 kilometres from here.
  Vid mer än tjugo av dessa tillfällen har jag gått härifrån med en förkylning och känt mig ganska dålig, ibland till och med haft feber.On more than twenty of those occasions I have left with a cold and feeling quite unwell, sometimes even running a temperature.

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