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What is the meaning of temperature?
Temperature is a physical property of matter that quantitatively expresses hot and cold.
It is the manifestation of thermal energy, present in all matter.
It is the source of the occurrence of heat, a flow of energy when a body is in contact with another that is colder.
Temperature is measured with a thermometer. Thermometers are calibrated in various temperature scales that historically have used various reference points and thermometric substances for definition.
The most common scales are
the Celsius scale (denoted °C),
the Fahrenheit scale (denoted °F), and
the Kelvin scale (denoted K).
Updated on: 10-Oct-2022
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