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say it: FER-uhn-hahyt
fahrenheit is a noun and adjective meaning "German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)". It is pronounced /ˈfɛɹənˌhaɪt/ — FER-uhn-hahyt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)
of or relating to a temperature scale proposed by the inventor of the mercury thermometer
“water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit under normal conditions”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fahrenheit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.