STANDARD TEMPERATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does standard temperature mean? 

• STANDARD TEMPERATURE (noun)
  The noun STANDARD TEMPERATURE has 1 sense:

1. exactly zero degrees centigrade

  Familiarity information: STANDARD TEMPERATURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STANDARD TEMPERATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exactly zero degrees centigrade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("standard temperature" is a kind of...):

C; degree Celsius; degree centigrade (a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "standard temperature"):

s.t.p.; STP (standard temperature and pressure)

 Context examples 

The radiodensity of distilled water at standard temperature and pressure is zero on the Hounsfield scale.

(Hounsfield Unit, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)