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degree Fahrenheit — noun a degree on the Fahrenheit scale of temperature • Syn: ↑F • Hypernyms: ↑degree … Useful english dictionary
degree Fahrenheit — (°F) a traditional unit of temperature still used customarily in the United States. The unit was defined by the German physicist Daniel G. Fahrenheit (1686 1736), who also invented the mercury thermometer. Fahrenheit set 0° at the coldest… … Dictionary of units of measurement
Fahrenheit — For other uses, see Fahrenheit (disambiguation). Thermometer with Fahrenheit and Celsius units Fahrenheit is the temperature scale proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the Dutch German Polish physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736).[ … Wikipedia
Degree symbol — This article describes the typographical or mathematical symbol. For other meanings, see Degree. ° Degree symbol Punctuation … Wikipedia
Fahrenheit — I. /ˈfærənhaɪt / (say faruhnhuyt) noun Gabriel Daniel, 1686–1736, German physicist who devised the Fahrenheit scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers. II. /ˈfærənhaɪt / (say faruhnhuyt) adjective 1. denoting or relating to a… …
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degree Rankine — (°R) a traditional unit of absolute temperature. 1 degree Rankine represents the same temperature difference as 1 degree Fahrenheit, but the zero point of the scale is set at absolute zero. This means the Rankine temperature is 459.67° plus… … Dictionary of units of measurement
degree — 1. (° or deg) the standard unit of angle measure, equal to 1/360 circle, 60 minutes, 3600 seconds, or about 0.017 453 293 radian. So far as we know, this unit was introduced by the Greek geometer Hipparchus of Nicaea (ca. 180 ca. 125 BC),… … Dictionary of units of measurement
Fahrenheit — adjective Describing a temperature scale originally defined as having 0 °F as the lowest temperature obtainable with a mixture of ice and salt, and 96 °F as the temperature of the human body, and now defined with 32 °F equal to 0 °C, and each… … Wiktionary
degree Celsius — (°C) a metric unit of temperature. The Celsius temperature scale is named for the Swedish astronomer and physicist Anders Celsius (1701 1744), who used a similar scale. The freezing point of water (at one atmosphere of pressure) was originally … Dictionary of units of measurement
