temperature

noun7

1. •
   a number that tells how warm or cool something or someone is

   • 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.
2. •
   An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.

   • You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
3. •
   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.
4. •
   (figurative) The general mood.

   • [Stephen] Miller's words did not seem designed to lower the temperature. — 2025
5. •
   A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.
6. •
   (no longer used) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.

   • Our intemperence it is that pulls so many several incurable diseases on our heads, that hastens old age, perverts our temperature, and brings upon us sudden death. — 1624
7. •
   (no longer used) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.