TEMPERATURE CHANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does temperature change mean? 

• TEMPERATURE CHANGE (noun)
  The noun TEMPERATURE CHANGE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TEMPERATURE CHANGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEMPERATURE CHANGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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)

 Context examples 

These data allowed scientists to map temperature changes across the entire planet.

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

We sense temperature changes in the environment through specialized nerve cells in the outer layers of the skin.

(Brain cells that cool the body, NIH)

As a result of this temperature change, rocks may begin to crack and break down, and eventually particles could be ejected from the surface.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

Testing the device's characteristics when subjected to temperature change (cycling), and high or low temperatures.

(Device Temperature Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

Over the last 10,000 years, snow and rain dripped into the depths of Scărișoara, where they froze into thin layers of ice containing chemical evidence of past winter temperature changes.

(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)

The temperature change achieved is comparable with those exploited commercially in HFCs and HCs.

(Green material for refrigeration identified, University of Cambridge)

But by adding ordered domains to the ELPs, they created Frankenstein proteins that combine ordered domains and disordered regions leading to so-called partially ordered proteins (POPs), which are equipped with the structural stability of ordered proteins without losing the ELPs ability to become liquid or solid via temperature changes.

(Biomaterial Artificial Protein Helps Heal Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A research team from University of California, San Francisco, searched for neurons that detect body temperature changes in the brain region that regulates nervous system functions like temperature and sleep: the preoptic area of the hypothalamus.

(Brain cells that cool the body, NIH)