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Fahrenheit   /fˈɛrənhˌaɪt/   Listen
Fahrenheit

noun
1.
German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736).  Synonym: Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to a temperature scale proposed by the inventor of the mercury thermometer.



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"Fahrenheit" Quotes from Famous Books



... a dozen springs, big and little, in the group and are scattered over several acres of hillside. The temperature of the water is 130 degrees Fahrenheit and too hot to drink but, if sipped slowly, it makes an admirable hot-water draught. The springs evidently have their source deep down in the earth and the flow of water never varies. When the water ...
— Arizona Sketches • Joseph A. Munk
... getting the decision over a hiccup. 'It was in the spring of last year that I sailed the Castle of Blenheim up to latitude 87 degrees Fahrenheit and beat the record. Ladies,' says Andy, 'it was a sad sight to see a Duke allied by a civil and liturgical chattel mortgage to one of your first families lost in a region of semiannual days.' And then he goes on, ...
— The Gentle Grafter • O. Henry
... flying up to 1.005 deg., I think that must have come from the heavy thunderstorms and floods of rain that lately visited us and no doubt imported some ingredients that had no business there. As for its temperature, I will select a note or two of the observations I made with a Fahrenheit thermometer ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... gentlemans name was Romer not Homer, but anyway he was 20% wrong and Mr. Fahrenheit and Mr. Celsius afterwards made ...
— Literary Blunders • Henry B. Wheatley
... are given by Jules Verne according to the centigrade system, for which we will in each case substitute the Fahrenheit measurement. (Tr.) ...
— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne


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