temperature

5 definitions • 8 examples

the measured amount of heat in a place or in the body:

Preheat the oven to a temperature of 200 degrees Celsius.

Temperatures have risen over the past few days (= the weather has become warmer).

take someone’s temperature The doctor examined him and took his temperature (= measured it).

to have a higher body temperature than normal and to be ill:

She had a temperature and was feeling rather queasy.

If you say that the temperature in a particular situation is rising, you mean that it is likely to become violent because people have become angry:

The temperature of the discussion started to rise as each side added its own arguments.

the measured amount of heat in a place or in the body:

[ C ] Temperatures should reach the 50s today.

[ U ] An increase in temperature is normal.

A temperature is also a fever:

[ C ] You have a temperature.