temperatures
- 1Plural of temperature.
Daytime temperatures soared past one hundred degrees during the heat wave.
Scientists recorded ocean temperatures at several depths along the coast.
Note
A plural that matters because the singular can go either way. Temperature works as a mass noun for heat as a property (the effect of temperature on pressure) and as a count noun for individual readings. The plural belongs to the second use, where measurements at different places, depths or times are set side by side. Even the fever meaning can take it: patients running high temperatures.
temperatures is a form of temperature
temperature, noun: A measure of how hot or cold something is, usually read with a thermometer; in physics, it reflects the average energy of the random motion of its particles. Full entry
- Forms
- temperaturetemperatures plural
- Spelling
- temperature → temperatures: add -s
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