FAHRENHEIT
\fˈaɹənhˌa͡ɪt], \fˈaɹənhˌaɪt], \f_ˈa_ɹ_ə_n_h_ˌaɪ_t]\
Definitions of FAHRENHEIT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)
By Princeton University
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German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale.
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The termometer or scale.
By Noah Webster.
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The name of a thermometer scale having 32 degrees as its freezing point, and 212 degrees as the boiling point of water.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The name distinguishing the kind of thermometer in most common use in England and America, in which the space between the freezing and the boiling points of water, under a medium pressure of the atmosphere, is divided into 180°; the freezing point being marked 32°, and the boiling 212°; as, there was a temperature of 60° Fahrenheit, that is, by a Fahrenheit thermometer; the Fahrenheit scale.
By Daniel Lyons
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Designating that thermometer - scale in which the freezing point of water is 32° and the boiling - point 212°; named from Fahrenheit, German physicist (1686 - 1736).
By James Champlin Fernald
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A thermometer which fixes the freezing-point at 32 and the boiling at 212, so named from the inventor.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
