HIGH TEMPERATURE

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The presence of heat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

heat; high temperature; hotness

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)

 Context examples 

This process is restricted to objects that can withstand high temperatures.

(Dry Heat Sterilization, NCI Thesaurus)

This process is typically carried out between 30 and 60 degrees C and is applicable for use on small objects that cannot withstand high temperatures.

(Ethylene Oxide-in-a-Bag Sterilization, NCI Thesaurus)

A sterilization process that uses high temperature and moist air to kill microorganisms.

(Moist Heat or Steam Sterilization, NCI Thesaurus)

This process may be used on objects that cannot withstand high temperatures.

(Ozone Sterilization, NCI Thesaurus)

A sterilization process that uses moist air at high temperatures to kill microorganisms.

(Moist Heat or Steam Sterilization, Food and Drug Administration)

A period of high temperature; a postglacial thermal optimum.

(Altithermal, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

A sterilization process that uses high temperature and dry air to kill microorganisms.

(Dry Heat Sterilization, Food and Drug Administration)

After three consecutive years of record-high temperatures for the globe, Earth was a slightly cooler planet in 2017. But not by much.

(2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for the globe, NOAA)

Next, the researchers implanted silicon ions into the diamond, and then heated the diamonds to high temperatures to remove other impurities that could also donate charges.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A colorless, odorless, crystalline amide that polymerizes rapidly and can form as a byproduct during the heating of starch-rich foods to high temperatures.

(Acrylamide, NCI Thesaurus)