temperature spot

American  

noun

Physiology.

1. a sensory area in the skin that selectively responds to increased or decreased temperature; a warm spot or a cold spot.

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Example Sentences

“We think that this will streamline the proceeding, lower the temperature level and help the jury focus on what it needs to decide,” Pattis said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2022

Sensitive instruments measured the time needed for the temperature at their floor to hit 302 degrees F, the established maximum temperature level for survivability in a shelter.

From Scientific American • Jul. 25, 2022

This would bring the global temperature level down to 2.2C, which would see dramatic and deadly impacts from warming but would be a step in the right direction from where the world is currently headed.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2021

In 2007, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the first bill to pass the state Legislature that would have created an enforceable standard — a temperature level above which the state considered it unsafe to work.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

We choose merely to take a certain temperature level - that of melting ice or something else - as a fixed point of reference and mark it once for all on the instrument.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst