[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

temperature \tem"perature\, n. f. temp'erature, l.
   temperatura due measure, proportion, temper, temperament.
   1. constitution; state; degree of any quality.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

            memory depends upon the consistence and the
            temperature of the brain.             --i. watts.
      1913 webster

   2. freedom from passion; moderation. obs.
      1913 webster

            in that proud port, which her so goodly graceth,
            most goodly temperature you may descry. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   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.

   note: the temperature of a liquid or a solid body as measured
         by a thermometer is a measure of the average kinetic
         energy of the consituent atoms or molecules of the
         body. for other states of matter such as plasma,
         electromagnetic radiation, or subatomic particles, an
         analogous measure of the average kinetic energy may be
         expressed as a temperature, although it could never be
         measured by a traditional thermometer, let alone by
         sensing with the skin.
         1913 webster +pjc

   4. mixture; compound. obs.
      1913 webster

            made a temperature of brass and iron together.
                                                  --holland.
      1913 webster

   5. 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 98deg-99.5deg f., in the mouth of an adult about
      98.4deg.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   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.
      1913 webster
      1913 webster
see also:
absolute temperature absolute animal temperature homoiothermal temperature sense 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

absolute \ab"solute\, a. l. absolutus, p. p. of absolvere: cf.
   f. absolu. see absolve.
   1. loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled;
      unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority,
      monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command;
      absolute power; an absolute monarch.
      1913 webster

   2. complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as,
      absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
      1913 webster

            so absolute she seems,
            and in herself complete.              --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. viewed apart from modifying influences or without
      comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to
      relative and comparative; as, absolute motion;
      absolute time or space.
      1913 webster

   note: absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man
         in a state of nature as contradistinguished from
         relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him
         in his social relations.
         1913 webster

   4. loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other
      being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
      1913 webster

   note: in this sense god is called the absolute by the theist.
         the term is also applied by the pantheist to the
         universe, or the total of all existence, as only
         capable of relations in its parts to each other and to
         the whole, and as dependent for its existence and its
         phenomena on its mutually depending forces and their
         laws.
         1913 webster

   5. capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone;
      unconditioned; non-relative.
      1913 webster

   note: it is in dispute among philosopher whether the term, in
         this sense, is not applied to a mere logical fiction or
         abstraction, or whether the absolute, as thus defined,
         can be known, as a reality, by the human intellect.
         1913 webster

               to cusa we can indeed articulately trace, word
               and thing, the recent philosophy of the absolute.
                                                  --sir w.
                                                  hamilton.
         1913 webster

   6. positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. r.
      1913 webster

            i am absolute 't was very cloten.     --shak.
      1913 webster

   7. authoritative; peremptory. r.
      1913 webster

            the peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head,
            with absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. --mrs.
                                                  browning.
      1913 webster

   8. chem. pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
      1913 webster

   9. gram. not immediately dependent on the other parts of
      the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. see
      ablative absolute, under ablative.
      1913 webster

   absolute curvature geom., that curvature of a curve of
      double curvature, which is measured in the osculating
      plane of the curve.

   absolute equation astron., the sum of the optic and
      eccentric equations.

   absolute space physics, space considered without relation
      to material limits or objects.

   absolute terms. alg., such as are known, or which do not
      contain the unknown quantity. --davies  peck.

   absolute temperature physics, the temperature as measured
      on a scale determined by certain general thermo-dynamic
      principles, and reckoned from the absolute zero.

   absolute zero physics, the be ginning, or zero point, in
      the scale of absolute temperature. it is equivalent to
      -273deg centigrade or -459.4deg fahrenheit.
      1913 webster

   syn: positive; peremptory; certain; unconditional; unlimited;
        unrestricted; unqualified; arbitrary; despotic;
        autocratic.
        1913 webster
see also:
absolve relative comparative ablative absolute ablative absolute curvature 
absolute equation absolute space absolute terms absolute temperature absolute zero 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

absolute temperature
     n : temperature measured on the absolute scale

Absolute >> A Words
Absolute, definition of term: Absolute
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Temperature >> T Words
Temperature, definition of term: Temperature
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Absolute Value >> A Words
Absolute Value, definition of term: Absolute Value
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Absolute Zero >> A Words
Absolute Zero, definition of term: Absolute Zero
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Absolute Temper >> A Words
Absolute Temper, definition of term: Absolute Temper
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Absolute Majori >> A Words
Absolute Majori, definition of term: Absolute Majori
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Absolute Freque >> A Words
Absolute Freque, definition of term: Absolute Freque
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Low Temperature >> L Words
Low Temperature, definition of term: Low Temperature
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