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TEMPERATURE SCALE
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I. (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)
