HIGH TEMPERATURE
Dictionary entry overview: What does high temperature mean?
• HIGH TEMPERATURE (noun)
The noun HIGH TEMPERATURE has 1 sense:
1. the presence of heat
Familiarity information: HIGH TEMPERATURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HIGH TEMPERATURE (noun)
Meaning:
The presence of heat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
high temperature; hotness; heat
Hypernyms ("high temperature" is a kind of...):
temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "high temperature"):
calefaction; incalescence (the property of being warming)
fieriness; red heat (the heat or the color of fire)
torridity (extreme heat)
warmness; warmth (the quality of having a moderate degree of heat)
white heat (the hotness of something heated until it turns white)
