temperaturen.
/ˈtɛmprᵻtʃə/, U.S. /ˈtɛmpə(rə)tʃər/, /ˈtɛmp(ə)rəˌtʃʊ(ə)r/ a. The action or process of tempering, in various senses of the verb; mixing or combination (of elements). Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing
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1550 H. Latimer Serm. Stamford sig. B.viv We should learne viam dei, goddes waye, and that trulye, withoute mixture, temperature, blaunching, powderyng.
1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 159 Plinie declareth that, in the time of Tiberius..the temperature of glasse was invented.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ix. xlvi. 350 Upon this good temperature of degrees, he purchased the surname of Maximus.
16.. Holland (Webster, 1864) Made a temperature of brass and iron together.
1677 J. Lake & S. Drake Short Acct. Author's Life in J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ sig. A7 He was Judge Advocate..and, by an excellent temperature of both, was a just and prudent Judge for the King, and a faithful Advocate for the Countrey.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > clay > [noun] > temper for clay
temperurec1400
temperature1610
temper1925
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ezek. xiii. comm. A wal of clay or morter without straw or other temperature, is washed away with rayne.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun]
commixtion?a1475
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] > in various or proper proportions
temperament?a1412
temperance1471
temperancy1526
temperature1538
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > due proportion or proportionateness > proportionate mixture
tempera1387
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temperature1538
contemperature1567
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing > in due proportion
temperament1471
temperature1538
contemperature1567
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Crasis, a greke worde, sygnyfieth complection, temperature, or myxture of naturall humours.
1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 8 By the increase or diminution of any of them [the four humours] in quantitie or qualytie, ouer or vnder their natural assignement, inequall temperature commeth into the body.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 28v There is in it a small temperature of the principales of the ayer and fyre.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiv. ix. 505 The last temperature is that, which in Latine they call Ollaria, as one would say, the pot-brasse, for it taketh the name of that vessell whereto it is most emploied; and this is by tempering with every hundred pound weight of brasse, three or four pound weight of argentine lead or tin.
1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife iv. iii Hath he not..Upon that crimson temperature of your cheeks, Laid a lead colour with his boist'rous blows?
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. ix. 36 Ashes have not exactly one temperature.
1675 R. Allestree Art Contentm. iv. 75 In all the concerns..of human life..there is such a temperature and mixture, that the good do's more then equal the ill.
a1768 T. Secker Serm. Several Subj. (1770) III. i. 6 The first of these, and the Foundation of all the rest, is a proper Temperature of Fear and Love.
1786 J. Bonnycastle Introd. Astron. 368 It is not credible that beings of our make and temperature could live upon them.
1826 R. Hall Wks. (1832) VI. 53 Such a temperature of light and shade as that which distinguishes all his discoveries of himself.
a. Due measure and proportion in action, speech, thought, etc.; freedom from excess or violence; moderation. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [noun]
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1536 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 3 To haue the same vsed and setfurthe in suche a temperature, as by your wisedome ye shall thinke may conduce to thadvauncement of his affayres there.
1539 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 172 Vsing..in the proposicion therof & answers to be geven that sobernes and temperature as he may perceive is to be vsed.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxvi. ii. 286 As I hope, Fortune..will give the same unto me, seeking diligently..after a temperature and moderation.
1659 C. Noble Moderate Answer 14 If he would but say and do with that moderation and temperature as the late Protector..has said and done.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > compromise > [noun] > instance of
midsc1485
temper?1523
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temperature1598
temperament1604
medium1719
compromise1797
come-between1877
trade-off1909
wash1976
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > [noun] > mean
middlingOE
middlelOE
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temper?1523
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temperature1598
temperament1604
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average1737
middle term1754
mesne1821
intermediacy1836
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1598 tr. G. de La Perrière Mirrour Policie sig. Div A vertuous temperature betweene two vicious extremities.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ii. lxxviii. 37 In the middest of the earth, there is an holesome mixture from both sides:..the habite of mens bodies of a meane and indifferent constitution. In the colour also there sheweth a great temperature.
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 37 To finde..some kinde of temperature, whereby the Republick might receive the Rights belonging thereunto from the Austrian subjects sailing those Seas.
1712 J. Hughes Spectator No. 467. ⁋9 His Constitution is a just Temperature between Indolence on one hand and Violence on the other.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [noun]
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profession?a1439
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temperament1471
essence?1533
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spirit?1534
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character1577
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1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 34 b Drythe..happeneth in the substance of the body, either by to moche labour, or by the proper temperature of age.
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 17 Of the temperature of meates to be receyued.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball lxiv. 95 Hartes Horne is colde and dry in temperature much like Plantayne.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xxiii. 727 As concerning the temperature of beere there is no doubt but that it is hote.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. xxii. 529 If the ground be of a middle temperature, there ought to bee a space of fiue foot distance betweene every vine.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xi. 120 The generall receiued opinion is, that the life of all things doth consist, in calido & humido, which is the temperature of blood.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 366 An unproper temperature of the Tympan..is, when it is dry in one place and moist in another.
a. The combination of ‘humours’ in the body; also, the bodily habit or constitution attributed to this; = temperament n. 6. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun] > disposition arising from humours
complexion1393
temperature1561
humour?1563
temperament1628
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 15v To know by what complexion or temperatur ye diseases are caused.
1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum i. vi. 5 In a mans bodie foure complexions or temperatures, as cholericke, sanguine, phlegmatique, and melancholique.
1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. F3v The victuall of the countrey..might haue bene thought to haue altered our temperatures.
a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1644) 134 It is evident also, that men differ very much in the temperature of their bodies.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 43. ⁋1 There is no temperature so exactly regulated but that some humour is fatally predominant.
1837 T. Jones Christian Warrior iv. vi. 97 He [Satan] observes the temperature and complexion of such a man. If he be sanguine..he tempts him to incontinency.
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the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [noun]
heartOE
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character1600
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character structure1873
mentality1895
mindset1909
psyche1910
where it's (he's, she's) at1967
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxviii. 35 It..is chiefly engendred of melancholie occupying the mind, and changing the temperature of it.
1595 E. Spenser Amoretti xiii, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. A8 In that proud port..Most goodly temperature ye may descry, Myld humblesse mixt with awfull maiesty.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. D2v As touching the Manners of learned men..no doubt there be amongst them, as in other professions, of all temperatures . View more context for this quotation
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 167 Any one may do a casual act of good nature, but a continuation of them shews it is a part of the temperature.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [noun] > moderate
temperancec1440
temperateness1525
temperature1531
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [noun] > temperateness of weather or climate
temperancec1440
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temperateness1525
temperature1531
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxv. sig. hvv The temperature or distemperature of the regions.
1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 217 Desiring of Him by Prayers to give raine and temperature, that the Earth may bring foorth Corne, Fruite, Hearbes,..and all other necessaries.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxiv. 139 Thracia..[is] of an yll temperature, the ayre being vnwholesome, & not healthfull.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 21 The temperature of this Country doth agree well with English constitutions.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xix. 529 I look upon this latitude [sc. the Cape of Good Hope] to be one of the mildest and sweetest for its temperature, of any whatsoever.
1728 J. Swift Short View State Ireland 12 A Country so favoured by Nature..both in Fruitfulness of Soyl, and Temperature of Climate.
7. figurative.1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xiv. 318 The temperature of the zeal of the different portions of the nation.
a. The state of a substance or body with regard to sensible warmth or coldness, referred to some standard of comparison; spec. that quality or condition of a body which in degree varies directly with the amount of heat contained in the body, and inversely with its heat-capacity; commonly manifested by its imparting heat to, or receiving it from, contiguous bodies, and usually measured by means of a thermometer or similar instrument. (Now the ordinary sense.)
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [noun]
temper1562
temperament1658
temperature1670
thermality1884
temp1886
1670 R. Boyle (title) Of the Temperature of the Submarine Regions as to Heat and Cold.
1670 R. Boyle Temperature Submarine Regions iii This person I diligently examined..as to the temperature of the lower parts of the sea (the knowledge of which is that alone that concerns us in this place); he several times complained to me of the coldness of the deep water.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 179. ⁋7 A moderate Expence of Fire,..serves to keep this large Room in a due Temperature.
a1743 G. Martine Ess. & Obs. Thermometers (1772) 46 There is a Thermometer in frequent use in England, wherein they conceive the middle temperature of the air as neither hot nor cold, which..they mark Gr. o, and number both above and below.
1791 tr. M. A. Pictet Ess. Fire 11 The thermometer will show, by the degree observed on its scale, the temperature of the liquid.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 47 The cause of them is, the difference in temperature between the air over the land and that over the water.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 48 I have determined the mean temperature of the month of May.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 113 To record the lowest winter temperatures at the summit of the mountain.
1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. i. iii. 99 The normal temperature of the body has been variously estimated; but on the average seems in the adult to range between 98·4° and 99·5°.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 72 A comparison of the temperatures shown by the two thermometers.
1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. v. 97 I took their temperatures this morning before I went to church.
b. (colloquial) to have a temperature, i.e. one higher than the normal, as in fever.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > have high or low temperature [verb (intransitive)] > high temperature
swelt1590
run1890
to have a temperature1898
1898 P. White Millionaire's Daughter (Tauchn.) 88 Do you think I have a temperature?
1904 E. F. Benson Challoners 318 He has..had a temperature for nearly a week.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [noun] > hardness
temperurec1407
temper1488
temperature1580
1580 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Dial. Yron in Ioyfull Newes (new ed.) f. 145v Iron so harde..that being wrought, it serueth for Steele, cheefely with a temperature that is giuen to it.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. xiv. 514 All our steele is of a more soft and gentle temperature than that of the Levant.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 115 We must doe as the Smithes who temper yron: For when they have given it a fire, and made it by that meanes soft, loose and pliable, they drench and dip it in cold water, whereby it becommeth compact and hard, taking thereby the due temperature of stiffe steele.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 249 Giving them the Iron Mines of Biskay..with the temperature of Baion, Bilbo, Toledo, and Calataiut.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > tuning or intonation > [noun]
temperure1390
modulation1543
tuning1554
temperature1592
temperament1728
intonation1776
just intonation1850
tuning1902
tune-up1977
1592 J. Lyly Gallathea iii. iii. sig. E1 An Organist to tune your temperatures.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
temperature-compensator n.
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1901 Daily News 12 Jan. 6/2 All the levers,..connecting rods, carriers, supporting rods, bell cranks, temperature compensators.
temperature control n.
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1923 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics III. 582/1 (heading) Temperature control.
1959 E. T. Hall Silent Lang. iii. 79 Clothes and houses are extensions of man's biological temperature-control mechanisms.
temperature correction n.
temperature-dependence n.
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1946 Nature 7 Sept. 333/1 Experiments on the temperature-dependence of the breakdown strength F.
temperature-dependency n.
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1974 J. W. Drake in M. J. Carlile & J. J. Skehol Evol. in Microbial World 53 The temperature-dependencies of the Neurospora and T4 rates differed markedly.
temperature-independence n.
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1965 Math. in Biol. & Med. (Med. Res. Council) vi. 256 The same difficulty arose with the temperature-independence of temporal rhythms.
temperature log n.
temperature sense n.
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1893 A. S. Eccles Sciatica 59 It appears to be possible, by close attention to the distribution of hyperæsthesia, temperature-sense for heat, and loss of cutaneous temperature, to localize in a measure the extent to which the nerve-trunk or its branches is involved.
temperature variation n.
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1871 W. Squire (title) Temperature Variations in the Diseases of Children.
b.
temperature-controlled adj.
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1935 Discovery Nov. 322/1 The centres are passed by an automatic feeding attachment through a curtain of temperature-controlled chocolate.
1970 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Oct. 163 They were housed in individual cages in a temperature-controlled laboratory.
temperature-dependent adj.
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1962 J. H. Simpson & R. S. Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors ix. 200 The most important temperature-dependent property of transistors is the collector cutoff current.
temperature-independent adj.
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1946 Nature 7 Sept. 333/1 The latter is temperature-independent but increases with the concentration of foreign atoms.
temperature-regulating adj.
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1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons iv. 338 It represents an interesting reminiscence of a more primitive physiological state when the temperature-regulating mechanism was not yet well established in the ancestral mammals.
1957 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation (rev. ed.) ix. 216 The temperature-regulating mechanism of higher mammals.
temperature-sensitive adj.
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1962 Science Survey XX. 308 The surface of the body contains a number of temperature-sensitive patches which produce patterns of nerve impulses related to the ambient temperature.
C2.
temperature-alarm n. see quot. 1877.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > warning arousing the unwary > device for sounding alarm > of excessive temperature
temperature-alarm1877
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Temperature alarm, a device which automatically makes a signal when the temperature of the place where it is exceeds or falls below a determinate point.
temperature-chart n. (a) a chart or card containing a temperature-curve or its equivalent; (b) a chart of a region indicating temperatures at different points, as by isotherms.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > measurement of temperature > [noun] > temperature graph or chart
thermograph1843
thermogram1883
temperature-chart1888
temperature-curve1899
telethermogram1909
1888 H. Morten Sketches Hosp. Life 29 I admire her neat temperature chart, and then pass on to Nurse Lorna.
temperature coefficient n. Physics a coefficient expressing the relation between a change in a physical property and the change in temperature that causes it.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > heat > [noun] > measurement of heat > factor in
temperature gradient1882
temperature coefficient1902
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 8/1 The quantity a is then called the temperature-coefficient, and its reciprocal is the temperature at which the resistivity would become zero.
1962 Newnes Conc. Encycl. Nucl. Energy 791/2 For the practical operation of a reactor the temperature coefficient of reactivity should be small so that a steady power can be maintained by moving control rods at a moderate speed.
temperature-curve n. a curve showing variations of temperature, usually in relation to equal periods of time, esp. in clinical use.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > measurement of temperature > [noun] > temperature graph or chart
thermograph1843
thermogram1883
temperature-chart1888
temperature-curve1899
telethermogram1909
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 639 A high temperature, marked fluctuations in the temperature curve, a rapid pulse.
temperature gradient n. a gradient (sense 2) of temperature.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > heat > [noun] > measurement of heat > factor in
temperature gradient1882
temperature coefficient1902
1882 E. D. Archibald in Nature 4 May 11/2 The primary cause of cyclones, according to Ferrel, is a horizontal temperature gradient.
1962 A. R. W. Hayes Revision Physics 98 We must measure..the uniform temperature gradient along the bar—found from readings of thermometers placed in mercury..in holes bored in the specimen.
1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 683/1 Structures of supersonic aircraft are subject to thermal stresses due to temperature gradients.
temperature inversion n. Meteorology the phenomenon of an increase of temperature with height above the ground.
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1945 E. Bollay in F. A. Berry et al. Handbk. Meteorol. x. 758 (caption) Characteristic properties of nonfrontal temperature inversions.
1977 I. M. Campbell Energy & Atmosphere viii. 252 A further circumstance of temperature inversion occurs where there is an enclosed valley in which cold air..tends to collect.
temperature-regulation n. Biology = thermoregulation n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > temperature and regulation > [noun] > temperature regulation
calorification1835
caloricity1836
thermotaxis1891
thermolysis1896
homoeothermism1903
temperature-regulation1927
thermoregulation1927
homoeothermy1961
1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xi. 240 The mammals..possess proper temperature-regulation.
temperature-salinity adj. relating to the temperature and salinity of water; spec. applied to a diagram in which both are plotted as a function of depth.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [adjective] > salinity or temperature
temperature-salinity1930
thermohaline1942
oligohaline1951
1930 Rep. ‘Michael Sars’ N. Atlantic Deep-sea Exped. 1910 I. i. 19 The ‘normal’ temperature–salinity curve is reproduced..in such a way that the corresponding values of temperature and salinity can easily be read off.
1942 H. U. Sverdrup et al. Oceans iv. 141 Water masses can be classified on the basis of their temperature–salinity characteristics.
1959 H. Barnes Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 157 As one passes across the Gulf Stream there is a fairly sharp temperature–salinity boundary between Gulf Stream water and the so-called Slope water lying over the Continental Shelf.
Derivatives
ˈtemperatured adj. in combination, having temperature of a stated kind.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [adjective]
temperatured1892
mesothermal1901
1892 Temple Bar Nov. 444 The inner door shuts her..into this pleasant-temperatured privacy.
Draft additions June 2014
temperature–humidity index n. Meteorology (originally U.S.) an index for measuring the discomfort felt in warm weather as a result of the combined effects of the temperature and humidity of the air; = discomfort index n. (a) at discomfort n. Compounds.
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1959 N.Y. Times 16 June 37/1 Bowing to complaints from weather-conscious business men, the Government announced today a new name for its experimental Discomfort Index. Henceforth the Weather Bureau will call it the Temperature-Humidity Index.
1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) ix. 178/2 Stress from heat and humidity is closely related to the ‘discomfort index’ (temperature-humidity index—THI) for humans.
2005 J. Moran Trop. Dairy Farming xix. 224 A Temperature Humidity Index of 78 occurs at 29°C with 50% humidity or at 27°C with 80% humidity.
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