TEMPERATURE CHANGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("temperature change" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "temperature change"):

advection ((meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties)

climate change; global climate change (a change in the world's climate)

convection (the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion)

chilling; cooling; temperature reduction (the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature)

heating; warming (the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature)