Tem"per*a*ture (?), n. [F.
température, L. temperatura due measure, proportion,
temper, temperament.] 1. Constitution; state; degree
of any quality.
The best composition and temperature is, to have
openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable
use, and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.
Bacon.
Memory depends upon the consistence and the
temperature of the brain.
I. Watts.
2. Freedom from passion; moderation.
[Obs.]
In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth,
Most goodly temperature you may descry.
Spenser.
3. (Physics) Condition with respect to heat
or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the
thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the
temperature of the air; high temperature; low
temperature; temperature of freezing or of boiling.
4. Mixture; compound. [Obs.]
Made a temperature of brass and iron
together.
Holland.
Absolute temperature. (Physics) See under
Absolute. -- Animal temperature
(Physiol.), the nearly constant temperature maintained in the
bodies of warm-blooded (homoiothermal) animals during life. The
ultimate source of the heat is to be found in the potential energy of the
food and the oxygen which is absorbed from the air during respiration. See
Homoiothermal. -- Temperature sense
(Physiol.), the faculty of perceiving cold and warmth, and so of
perceiving differences of temperature in external objects. H. N.
Martin.
Tem"per*a*ture, n. (Physiol. &
Med.) The degree of heat of the body of a living being, esp.
of the human body; also (Colloq.), loosely, the excess of this over
the normal (of the human body 98°-99.5° F., in the mouth of
an adult about 98.4°).
Tem"per*a*ture (?), n. [F.
température, L. temperatura due measure, proportion,
temper, temperament.] 1. Constitution; state; degree
of any quality.
The best composition and temperature is, to have
openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable
use, and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.
Bacon.
Memory depends upon the consistence and the
temperature of the brain.
I. Watts.
2. Freedom from passion; moderation.
[Obs.]
In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth,
Most goodly temperature you may descry.
Spenser.
3. (Physics) Condition with respect to heat
or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the
thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the
temperature of the air; high temperature; low
temperature; temperature of freezing or of boiling.
4. Mixture; compound. [Obs.]
Made a temperature of brass and iron
together.
Holland.
Absolute temperature. (Physics) See under
Absolute. -- Animal temperature
(Physiol.), the nearly constant temperature maintained in the
bodies of warm-blooded (homoiothermal) animals during life. The
ultimate source of the heat is to be found in the potential energy of the
food and the oxygen which is absorbed from the air during respiration. See
Homoiothermal. -- Temperature sense
(Physiol.), the faculty of perceiving cold and warmth, and so of
perceiving differences of temperature in external objects. H. N.
Martin.
Tem"per*a*ture, n. (Physiol. &
Med.) The degree of heat of the body of a living being, esp.
of the human body; also (Colloq.), loosely, the excess of this over
the normal (of the human body 98°-99.5° F., in the mouth of
an adult about 98.4°).
