Fahr.

American  

Or Fah

abbreviation

1. Fahrenheit (thermometer).

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Example Sentences

The rate of the decrease of temperature with height there is 1° Fahr. for every 275 feet of ascent, on the mean of the year.

From Meteorology or Weather Explained by M'Pherson, J. G.

Earlier in the season we had often recorded temperatures of 195� and 197� Fahr. in the sun with the black bulb thermometer.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth

I once saw three together, skimming over the plains, on one of the coldest days I ever experienced on the pampas, the thermometer having stood at 29° Fahr. that morning.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

Although it was the beginning of September, the night temperatures at Kharta were still much too high, ranging from 52� Fahr. to 47� Fahr.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth

It fuses at a temperature of 208�.4 Fahr., and in cooling resumes its former prismatic crystalline form.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von