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temperature

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


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Pressure and temperature alone may not determine which structure the material adopts.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

Yarovskiy said he would try to repair his own apartment, and the entire family would stay there, even though the apartment has electric heating and the temperature inside often dropped below freezing last winter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

On Saturday the temperature peaked at 30.6C in southern England.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Previous research in this area has used a measurement called wet-bulb temperature, which incorporates humidity to estimate how much heat a human body can withstand.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

There was no temperature change, no wind howling furiously around some time portal.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Scientists declare an El Niño when sea surface temperatures in a key area of the Pacific are 0.5C or more above average.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

If temperatures fail to reach 25C anywhere in the UK - as looks likely - it will be the first time that has happened since 29 June.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

The deadly weather front in February of 2021 meant multiple deaths, massive power grid failures, freezing temperatures and water shortages for millions of Texans.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Seven aircraft from Germany, Norway, Belgium and Sweden were carrying out water drops in and around the burned perimeter where ground temperatures remained "extremely high".

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

It was that warmer temperatures all around the world were melting the permafrost in the Arctic, and tiny microbes were feasting on the newly unfrozen plant material in the ground.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz




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