Fahrenheit

[far-uhn-hahyt, fahr-uhn-hahyt]

noun

1. Gabriel Daniel 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.

adjective

1. noting, pertaining to, or measured according to a temperature scale Fahrenheitscale in which 32° represents the ice point and 212° the steam point. F

Fahrenheit

¹

/ ˈfærənˌhaɪt /

adjective

1. F. of or measured according to the Fahrenheit scale of temperature

Fahrenheit

²

/ ˈfaːrənhait /

noun

1. Gabriel Daniel (ˈɡaːbrieːl ˈdaːnieːl). 1686–1736, German physicist, who invented the mercury thermometer and devised the temperature scale that bears his name

Fahrenheit

¹

1. Relating to or based on a temperature scale that indicates the freezing point of water as 32° and the boiling point of water as 212° under standard atmospheric pressure.

Fahrenheit

²

1. German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer in 1714 and devised the Fahrenheit temperature scale.

Fahrenheit

¹

1. A temperature scale according to which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. The scale was devised by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, an instrument maker of the eighteenth century, born in Germany.

Fahrenheit

²

1. A temperature scale, used primarily in the United States, in which the freezing point of water is 32 degrees and the boiling point 212 degrees. Temperatures in this scale are denoted by °F or, in scientific usage, F alone. (Compare Celsius.)

Example Sentences

In California's Death Valley, where summer heat often surpasses 120 degrees Fahrenheit, survival appears almost impossible.

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The well-insulated mud-and-stick lodges that their parents construct can maintain an interior temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit in winter, but only if occupied by several animals.

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WASP-18b is well suited for this test because it has about the mass of 10 Jupiters, completes an orbit in only 23 hours, and reaches temperatures near 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Temperatures can reach more than 400 degrees Fahrenheit; the pressure can be as high as at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, the deepest point in the world’s oceans.

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Under Food and Drug Administration guidelines, raw milk cheese must be aged for at least 60 days at or above 35 degrees Fahrenheit.

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