TEMPERATURE UNIT

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Meaning:

A unit of measurement for temperature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)

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

degree (a unit of temperature on a specified scale)

millidegree (a unit of temperature equal to one-thousandth of a degree)

K; kelvin (the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites)

Rankine (a unit of temperature on the Rankine scale)

degree day (a unit used in estimating fuel requirements for heating a building)