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気温 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • mercury noun A heavy, silvery metallic element that is liquid at room temperature and highly toxic; also called quicksilver.
  • temperature noun A measurement of how hot or cold something is.

Senses

気温 is used for these senses in English:

  • mercury (with definite article) Ambient pressure or temperature (from the use of mercury in barometers and thermometers). [from 17th c.]
  • temperature A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
  • temperature (thermodynamics) 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.

mercury — full definition

  1. noun A heavy, silvery metallic element that is liquid at room temperature and highly toxic; also called quicksilver.
  2. noun Informal: the reading on a thermometer or barometer, as a stand-in for temperature or pressure.

temperature — full definition

  1. noun A measurement of how hot or cold something is.
  2. noun A body temperature higher than normal, indicating fever or illness.

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