temperature

1. The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) (synset 105018974)
   tells us about:

   • hot - used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning
   • cold - having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
   • warm - having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
   • cool - neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat
   is a type of:

   • physical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions
   • fundamental measure, fundamental quantity - one of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement
   subtypes:

   • absolute temperature - temperature measured on the absolute scale
   • absolute zero - (cryogenics) the lowest temperature theoretically attainable (at which the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules is minimal); 0 Kelvin or -273.15 centigrade or -459.67 Fahrenheit
   • curie point, curie temperature - the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
   • dew point - the temperature at which the water vapor in the air becomes saturated and condensation begins
   • flash point, flashpoint - the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air
   • freezing point, melting point - the temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid
   • boil, boiling point - the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
   • mercury - temperature measured by a mercury thermometer
   • room temperature - the normal temperature of room in which people live
   • simmer - temperature just below the boiling point
   • blood heat, body temperature - temperature of the body; normally 98.6 F or 37 C in humans; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health
   • cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature - the absence of heat
   • heat, high temperature, hotness - the presence of heat
2. The somatic sensation of cold or heat (synset 105733323)
   is a type of: somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia - the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations
   subtypes:

   • heat, warmth - the sensation caused by heat energy
   • cold, coldness - the sensation produced by low temperatures
   • comfort zone - the temperature range (between 28 and 30 degrees Centigrade) at which the naked human body is able to maintain a heat balance without shivering or sweating

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