noun

1. A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.

   “The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.”

2. An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.

   “You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.”

3. A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. http//arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055