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Fahrenheit
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Fahrenheit is a scale for measuring temperature, in which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. It is represented by the symbol °F. By mid-morning, the temperature was already above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. ADJ: n/num ADJ • Fahrenheit is also a noun. He was asked for the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit. N-UNCOUNT
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I. adjective Etymology: Daniel G. ~ Date: 1753 relating or conforming to a thermometric scale on which under standard atmospheric pressure the boiling point of water is at 212 degrees above the zero of the scale, the freezing point is at 32 degrees above zero, and the zero point approximates the temperature produced by mixing equal quantities by weight of snow and common salt — abbreviation F II. biographical name Daniel Gabriel 1686-1736 German physicist ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. of or measured on a scale of temperature on which water freezes at 32° and boils at 212° under standard conditions. Etymology: G. Fahrenheit, Ger. physicist d. 1736 ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1753, named for G.D. Fahrenheit (1686-1736), Prussian physicist who proposed the scale in 1714. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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