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say it: TEM-pruh-chur
temperature is a noun meaning "the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)". It is pronounced /ˈtɛmpɹətʃɚ/ — TEM-pruh-chur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)
the somatic sensation of cold or heat
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 temperature 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.