What does Fahrenheit mean?

Definitions for Fahrenheit
ˈfær ənˌhaɪtfahren·heit

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheitadjective

    German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)

  2. Fahrenheit(ip)adjective

    of or relating to a temperature scale proposed by the inventor of the mercury thermometer

    "water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit under normal conditions"

Wiktionary

  1. Fahrenheitadjective

    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 degree Fahrenheit equal to 5/9 of a degree Celsius or 5/9 kelvin.

  2. Etymology: From the German scientist Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit.

Wikipedia

  1. Fahrenheit

    The Fahrenheit scale () is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). It uses the degree Fahrenheit (symbol: °F) as the unit. Several accounts of how he originally defined his scale exist, but the original paper suggests the lower defining point, 0 °F, was established as the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride (a salt). The other limit established was his best estimate of the average human body temperature, originally set at 90 °F, then 96 °F (about 2.6 °F less than the modern value due to a later redefinition of the scale).For much of the 20th century, the Fahrenheit scale was defined by two fixed points with a 180 °F separation: the temperature at which pure water freezes was defined as 32 °F and the boiling point of water was defined to be 212 °F, both at sea level and under standard atmospheric pressure. It is now formally defined using the Kelvin scale and hence ultimately by the Boltzmann constant, the Planck constant, and the second (defined as a specific number of cycles of the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium-133 atom.)It continues to be officially used in the United States (including its unincorporated territories), its freely associated states in the Western Pacific (Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands), the Cayman Islands, and the former American colony of Liberia. Fahrenheit is used alongside the Celsius scale in Antigua and Barbuda and other countries which use the same meteorological service, such as Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Bahamas, and Belize. A handful of British Overseas Territories, including the Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Anguilla, and Bermuda, still use both scales. All other countries now use Celsius ("centigrade" until 1948), a scale formalized about 20 years after the Fahrenheit scale. The United Kingdom started to change from Fahrenheit to Celsius in 1962, and many people remain aware of Fahrenheit temperatures; degrees Fahrenheit are sometimes used in newspaper headlines to sensationalize heatwaves.

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    Fahrenheit is a scale used to measure temperature, primarily used in the United States and its associated territories. It was proposed in 1724 by physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. On this scale, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees and boiling point is 212 degrees at standard atmospheric pressure.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fahrenheitadjective

    conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale

  2. Fahrenheitnoun

    the Fahrenheit termometer or scale

  3. Etymology: [G.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Fahrenheit

    fä′ren-hīt, or far′en-īt, n. the name applied to a thermometer, the freezing-point of which is marked at 32, and the boiling-point at 212 degrees (see Thermometer for the relations between the two scales). [Named from the inventor, Gabriel D. Fahrenheit (1686-1736).]

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Who Was Who?

  1. Fahrenheit

    Inventor of an instrument which enables a person to ascertain whether the weather is warm or cold.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Fahrenheit in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Fahrenheit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Fahrenheit in a Sentence

  1. Neylor Bastos:

    At the plant, we have a system that controls worker temperatures, all people are monitored and if anyone has a temperature over 37.5 Celsius (99.5 Fahrenheit), that person will go straight to the medical facility ... and then goes home.

  2. Michael Read:

    Basically they were stuck in the car for the 55 hours in 30-degree (Celsius – about 86 Fahrenheit) heat, nobody knows what they went through.

  3. Chris Beard:

    Winter temperatures may have gotten as low as freezing for short periods of time, but we know that there were hardly ever any sustained freezing temperatures because crocodilians have been found on Ellesmere Island, and they cannot survive long freezes, in the summertime, temperatures reached about 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

  4. Susan McKelvey:

    If Sarah Clark consider that glass melts at 900 degrees Fahrenheit, Sarah Clark're putting something that burns even hotter in people's hands, including a lot of times children's hands.

  5. Patty Davis:

    Sparklers burn as hot as a blowtorch at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit( 1,093 degrees Celsius), and that's enough to burn some metals.

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