Fahrenheit scale

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noun

a scale of temperatures in which 32° represents the melting point of ice and 212° represents the boiling point of pure water under standard atmospheric pressureCompare Celsius scale

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How to use Fahrenheit scale in a sentence

The most recent activity had a high point of 3.6 on the Richter Scale.
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So did Alexander Hamilton, and on a grander scale than your AmEx.
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Only two senators opposed the resolution, which the administration later claimed was the authority for a full-scale war.
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The last time there was a raid of this scale was in 2001, when 52 men were arrested on Queen Boat, a floating disco on the Nile.
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Some of the streets in this part of the town have seen large scale-destruction.
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On a small scale map, in an office, you may make mole-hills of mountains; on the ground there's no escaping from its features.
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Free discussion—never a very free thing in Russia—has now on any general scale become quite impossible.
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One day in April the thermometer suddenly rose to eighteen above the freezing-point of Fahrenheit.
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But consider what it will be when the system is adopted on a more comprehensive scale.
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If only India were pulling her weight for us on the same scale, we should by now be before the gates of Vienna.
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