Definition of Fahrenhiet
Fah"ren*heit (?) a. [G.]
Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's
thermometric scale. -- n. The Fahrenheit
thermometer or scale. &fist; The Fahrenheit thermometer is so graduated that the
freezing point of water is at 32 degrees above the zero of its scale,
and the boiling point at 212 degrees above. It is commonly used in
the United States and in England.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A temperature scale originally defined as having 0 °F as the lowest temperature obtainable with a mixture of ice and salt, and 96 °F as the temperature of the human body, and now defined with 32 °F equal to 0 °C, and each degree Fahrenheit equal to 5/9 of a degree Celsius or 5/9 kelvin.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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