Fahrenheit

[ far-uhn-hahyt; German fahr-uhn-hahyt ]

noun

1. Ga·bri·el Da·ni·el [gah, -b, r, ee-el , dah, -nee-el], 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.

adjective

1. noting, pertaining to, or measured according to a temperature scale Fahrenheitscale in which 32° represents the ice point and 212° the steam point. : F

Fahrenheit

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/ ˈfærənˌhaɪt /

adjective

1. of or measured according to the Fahrenheit scale of temperature F

Fahrenheit

²

/ ˈfaːrənhait /

noun

1. FahrenheitGabriel Daniel16861736MGermanSCIENCE: physicistTECHNOLOGY: inventor Gabriel Daniel (ˈɡaːbrieːl ˈdaːnieːl). 1686–1736, German physicist, who invented the mercury thermometer and devised the temperature scale that bears his name

Fahrenheit

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1. German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer in 1714 and devised the Fahrenheit temperature scale.

Fahrenheit

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/ făr′ən-hīt′ /

1. Relating to or based on a temperature scale that indicates the freezing point of water as 32° and the boiling point of water as 212° under standard atmospheric pressure.

Fahrenheit

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1. A temperature scale according to which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. The scale was devised by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, an instrument maker of the eighteenth century, born in Germany .

Fahrenheit

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1. A temperature scale, used primarily in the United States, in which the freezing point of water is 32 degrees and the boiling point 212 degrees. Temperatures in this scale are denoted by °F or, in scientific usage, F alone. ( Compare Celsius .)

Example Sentences

Instead, a balmy 70 degrees Fahrenheit forced them into cargo pants.

From Washington Post

Some models can raise your bag rating by as much as 30 degrees Fahrenheit, while battery-powered pads and liners can keep you even cozier.

From Popular-Science

There are three temperature settings, starting at 100 degrees Fahrenheit and going all the way up to 150 degrees.

From Popular-Science

Those whose toes were below 90 degrees Fahrenheit in both cases were classified as cold-sensitive.

From Outside Online

The Salton Sea glitters in the distance, beckoning as the morning temperature approaches 106 degrees Fahrenheit.

From Quartz

Detainees were hosed down while shackled naked, and placed in rooms with temperatures as low as 59 degrees Fahrenheit.

From The Daily Beast

But Duncan went through screening Sept. 19 in Monrovia, Liberia, where he presented a temperature of 97.3 degrees Fahrenheit.

From The Daily Beast

She came into the isolation center with a [temperature] of 40 degrees [104 Fahrenheit], and that was too high for a 6-year-old.

From The Daily Beast

It is now about five p.m. and the temperature is one hundred and twenty-one degrees Fahrenheit.

From The Daily Beast

The workers had to use oxygen tanks to combat the rancid smell of death in temperatures that topped 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

From The Daily Beast

One day in April the thermometer suddenly rose to eighteen above the freezing-point of Fahrenheit.

From Project Gutenberg

The temperature of the water was 36° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, that of the air 38°, when the ice was nearest.

From Project Gutenberg

Five little silver thermometers inside the glass doors indicated a temperature of 95° Fahrenheit.

From Project Gutenberg

To pasteurize milk we heat it to a temperature of not over 170 Fahrenheit for from ten minutes to half an hour.

From Project Gutenberg

Here the fish, both males and females, remain until the temperature of the water falls to about 54 Fahrenheit.

From Project Gutenberg