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The word temperature traces back to a Latin root meaning what?

temperature

[tem-per-uh-cher, -choor, -pruh-, -per-cher] / ˈtɛm pər ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, -prə-, -pər tʃər /


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They’re also implanting devices known as biologgers into deer and mountain lions to monitor physiological data including body temperature, heart rate and fat reserves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

The team cited charts illustrating that temperature anomalies lead world food prices by about 12 months.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

A Learjet pilot called air-traffic control for clearance to fly higher Sunday at about 12:50 p.m. local time as a storm was generating ice and turbulence at an air temperature of negative 52.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

One of the IVA branches located in Sjöbo, southern Sweden, wrote on social media: "Our refrigerators and freezers have been hacked overnight and they have set the temperature to 50 degrees."

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Here, in northwestern New Mexico, the heat was dry, and all you had to do was step out of the sun and the temperature dropped dramatically.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

The cold temperatures of winter initially may have slowed the spread of infection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Special ceramic coatings also protect blades from extreme temperatures inside engines.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Both of them started to turn black and swell in the freezing temperatures, signs that the tissue was dying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The winds will bring warm temperatures, with forecasts calling for “widespread upper 70s and 80s,” Thompson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

When people took sick, their temperatures rose and caused the body lice to seek more hospitable abodes.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos


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