1. n. (obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
2. n. (now rare, archaic) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
3. n. A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
4. n. 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.
5. n. (when not used in relation with something) The temperature(1) of the immediate environment.
The temperature dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
6. n. (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.
