Degree+of+temperature
111Core temperature — Core temperature, also called core body temperature, is the operating temperature of an organism, specifically in deep structures of the body such as the liver, in comparison to temperatures of peripheral tissues. Temperature control… …
112Cooling Degree Days — (CDD) A measure of how warm a location is over a period of time relative to a base temperature, most commonly specified as 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The measure is computed for each day by subtracting the base temperature (65 degrees) from the… …
113Heating Degree Days — (HDD) A measure of how cold a location is over a period of time relative to a base temperature, most commonly specified as 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The measure is computed for each day by subtracting the average of the day s high and low… …
114Coldest temperature recorded on Earth — The coldest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth was −89 °C (−128°F) at the Russian Vostok Station in Antarctica July 21, 1983. [http://www.globe.gov/fsl/html/templ.cgi?archive atmos10271999 lang=en nav=6] Lower temperatures have been… …
115day-degree — a unit taking temperature and time in days into consideration to indicate degree of development. Calculated by adding the average daily temperature for each day, e.g. if the average daily temperatures that a 3 day old trout egg has been subjected …
116Cooling Degree Day - CDD — The number of degrees that a day s average temperature is above 65o Fahrenheit and people start to use air conditioning to cool their buildings. The price of weather derivatives trading in the summer are based on an index made up of monthly… …
117day degree — noun : one degree above or below a temperature adopted as a standard (as 42° F for the temperature at which vegetation commences) for a period of 24 hours or its equivalent (as 2° for 12 hours or 4° for 6 hours) …
118Gram degree — Gram Gram, Gramme Gramme, n. [F. gramme, from Gr. ? that which is written, a letter, a small weight, fr. ? to write. See {Graphic.}] The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the… …
119Gramme degree — Gram Gram, Gramme Gramme, n. [F. gramme, from Gr. ? that which is written, a letter, a small weight, fr. ? to write. See {Graphic.}] The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the… …
120Fuel temperature coefficient of reactivity — is the change in reactivity of the nuclear fuel per degree change in the fuel temperature. The coefficient quantifies the amount of neutrons that the nuclear fuel (uranium 238) absorbs from the fission process as the fuel temperature increases.… …
