TEMPERATURE SCALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does temperature scale mean? 

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

1. a system of measuring temperature

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEMPERATURE SCALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A system of measuring temperature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

metric; system of measurement (a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic)

graduated table; ordered series; scale; scale of measurement (an ordered reference standard)

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

Celsius scale; centigrade scale; international scale (a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees)

Fahrenheit scale (a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 32 degrees and the boiling point of water a 212 degrees)

absolute scale; Kelvin scale (a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as 0 degrees; water freezes at 273.16 degrees and boils at 373.16 degrees)

Rankine scale (a scale of absolute temperature in Fahrenheit degrees; the freezing point of water is 491.69 degrees and the boiling point of water is 671.69 degrees)

Reaumur scale (a temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees)

 Context examples 

The Fahrenheit temperature scale is named after the German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), who proposed it in 1724.

(Degree Fahrenheit, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A unit of temperature of the temperature scale designed so that the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point is 100 degrees at standard atmospheric pressure.

(Degree Celsius, NCI Thesaurus)

The temperature scale defined by the values 0 degree Celsius for the freezing point of water and 100 degrees Celsius for the boiling point of water.

(Celsius Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of temperature of the temperature scale designed so that the freezing point of water is 32 degrees and the boiling point is 212 degrees, placing the boiling and melting points of water 180 degrees apart.

(Degree Fahrenheit, NCI Thesaurus)