Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.

The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.

* , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.136:

Our intemperence it is that pulls so many several incurable diseases on our heads, that hastens old age, perverts our temperature , and brings upon us sudden death.

* 1759 , Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p.5:

that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy foundation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind […].

* 1993 , James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love , Book II:

Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature .

A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.

The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The climate of Tibet: Pole-land , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}

An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.

You have a temperature ; I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.

(when not used in relation with something) The temperature(1) of the immediate environment.

The temperature dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold .

(thermodynamics) A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. [http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055]

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(biology) The sense of heat and cold: the ability of humans, and many other organisms, to perceive temperature.

* 2006 , Fernando Cervero, Handbook of Clinical Neurology , Series 3, Volume 81: Pain, page 251:

a region which has been shown to be involved in a variety of interoceptive modalities like thermoception , visceral sensations, thirst and hunger.

*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 19, author=Daniel B. Smith, title=Without a Net, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Aristotle failed to specify proprioception (the sense of how our body parts are positioned in space relative to one another), equilibrioception (the sense of linear acceleration and head position), thermoception (the sense of heat and cold) and nociception (the sense of pain). }}

* 2008 , Georges Canguilhem, Paola Marrati, Todd Meyers, Knowledge of life , page 175:

The frog, with its selective eye for instantly usable information; the pit viper, with its thermoception , which at night can sense the blood temperature of its prey; the common house fly, which equilibrates its flight with two cilia—these have supplied a new species of engineers with models.