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HIGH TEMPERATURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The presence of heat
Synonyms:
heat; high temperature; hotness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("high temperature" is a kind of...):
temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "high temperature"):
calefaction; incalescence (the property of being warming)
fieriness; red heat (the heat or the color of fire)
torridity (extreme heat)
warmness; warmth (the quality of having a moderate degree of heat)
white heat (the hotness of something heated until it turns white)
Context examples:
To date, CO2 has only been converted into a solid at extremely high temperatures, making it industrially unviable.
(Scientists Turn CO2 into Solid Coal, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Issue associated with the device producing high temperatures, such that its operation is compromised (e.g. overheating that produces melting of components or automatic shutdown).
(Overheating of Medical Device or Device Component, Food and Drug Administration)
Heterocyclic Amines are formed from cooking meat such as beef, pork, fowl, and fish when amino acids and creatine (found in muscle) react at high temperatures.
(Heterocyclic Amine Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)
Lava lakes directly exposed to space without an atmosphere would create local hot spots of high temperatures, so they are not the best explanation for the Spitzer observations.
(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)
Palm oil is commonly used as a commercial cooking oil due to its stability at high temperatures.
(Palm Oil, NCI Thesaurus)
Palm kernel oil is commonly used as a commercial cooking oil due to its stability at high temperatures.
(Palm Kernel Oil, NCI Thesaurus)
It is also rocked by “violent weather systems, catastrophic storms" and high temperatures reaching 2,500 degree Celsius.
(Exoplanet Could Have Clouds of Rubies, Sapphires, VOA)
Instead of combating the heat, two University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers have embraced it as an alternative energy source that would allow computing at ultra-high temperatures.
(Harnessing Heat to Power Computers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
To get rid of bedbugs: • Wash and dry bedding and clothing at high temperatures. • Use mattress, box spring, and pillow encasements to trap bedbugs and help detect infestations. • Use pesticides if needed.
(Bedbugs, Environmental Protection Agency)
A chemical that is formed when meat, poultry, or fish is cooked at high temperatures, such as frying, broiling, and barbecuing.
(HCA, NCI Dictionary)
