FAHRENHEIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fahrenheit mean? 

• FAHRENHEIT (noun)
  The noun FAHRENHEIT has 1 sense:

1. German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)

  Familiarity information: FAHRENHEIT used as a noun is very rare.

• FAHRENHEIT (adjective)
  The adjective FAHRENHEIT has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to a temperature scale proposed by the inventor of the mercury thermometer

  Familiarity information: FAHRENHEIT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAHRENHEIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fahrenheit; Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

• FAHRENHEIT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to a temperature scale proposed by the inventor of the mercury thermometer

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit under normal conditions

Pertainym:

Fahrenheit scale (a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 32 degrees and the boiling point of water a 212 degrees)

 Context examples 

It also means that the top of the planet's atmosphere is heated to a blazing 4,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,500 Celsius), hot enough to boil some metals.

(Hubble Detects Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere, NASA)

Hot Jupiters, cousins to ultrahot Jupiters with dayside temperatures below 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 Celsius), were the first widely discovered type of exoplanet, starting back in the mid-1990s.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

Its equilibrium temperature — that is, the temperature based only on energy it receives from the star, which ignores additional warming effects from a possible atmosphere — is around 490 degrees Fahrenheit (254 degrees Celsius).

(NASA’s TESS Mission Scores ‘Hat Trick’ With 3 New Worlds, NASA)

To their surprise, they found a dramatic temperature difference of 2340 degrees Fahrenheit (1,300 Kelvin) from one side of the planet to the other.

(Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth, NASA)

To find out, they constructed an artificial furnace designed to replicate the naturally occurring inferno during Earth's violent formation – melting rocks at 1,300°C (2,370 Fahrenheit) in oxygen-poor conditions.

(Fiery Collisions That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Beatty's team selected Kepler-13Ab because it is one of the hottest of the known exoplanets, with a dayside temperature of nearly 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

(Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen, NASA)

It turns out that this temperature difference — as much as 11 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 12 degrees Celsius) — is more than enough to yield methane ice.

(NASA Finds Methane Ice Cloud in Titan's Stratosphere, NASA)

Ndao said he expects the device could eventually work in heat as extreme as 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit (704 degrees Celsius), which could have major implications in many industries.

(Harnessing Heat to Power Computers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Most of the newfound water ice lies in the shadows of craters near the poles, where the warmest temperatures never reach above minus 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

(Ice Confirmed at the Moon's Poles, NASA)

The cold side is still quite toasty by Earthly standards, with an average of 2,400 to 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit (1,300 to 1,400 Celsius), and the hot side averages 4,200 degrees Fahrenheit (2,300 Celsius).

(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)