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Fahr⋅en⋅heit

  [far-uhn-hahyt; Ger. fahr-uhn-hahyt]
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1. Ga⋅bri⋅el Da⋅ni⋅el  [Ger. gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] , 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
–adjective
2. noting, pertaining to, or measured according to a temperature scale (Fahrenheit scale) in which 32° represents the ice point and 212° the steam point. Symbol: F
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Fahr·en·heit   (fār'ən-hīt')   
adj.   Abbr. F
Of or relating to a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32° and the boiling point as 212° at one atmosphere of pressure. See Table at measurement.

[After Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit.]
Fahr·en·heit   (fār'ən-hīt', fä'rən-)   
German-born physicist who invented the mercury thermometer (1714) and devised the Fahrenheit temperature scale.
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Fahrenheit

Fah"ren*heit\a. [G.] Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to Fahrenheit's thermometric scale. -- n. The Fahrenheit termometer or scale.

Note: The Fahrenheit thermometer is so graduated that the freezing point of water is at 32 degrees above the zero of its scale, and the boiling point at 212 degrees above. It is commonly used in the United States and in England.
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Fahrenheit

A temperature scale according to which water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. The scale was devised by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, an instrument maker of the eighteenth century, born in Germany.


Fahrenheit [(fair-uhn-heyet)]

A temperature scale, used primarily in the United States, in which the freezing point of water is 32 degrees and the boiling point 212 degrees. Temperatures in this scale are denoted by °F or, in scientific usage, F alone. (Compare Celsius.)

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Fahrenheit 
1753, named for Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), Prussian physicist who proposed the scale in 1714. An abstract surname meaning lit. "experience."
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Main Entry: Fahr·en·heit
Pronunciation: 'far-&n-"hIt
Function: adjective
: relating or conforming to a thermometric scale on which understandard atmospheric pressure the boiling point of water is at 212 degrees above the zero of the scale, the freezing point is at 32 degrees above zero, and the zero point approximates the temperatureproduced by mixing equal quantities by weight of snow and common salt —abbreviation F
Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel (1686–1736), German physicist. Fahrenheitdevoted his career mostly to the making of precision scientific instruments. In 1709 he developed an alcohol thermometer, superseding it with a mercury thermometer in 1714. His most importantachievement was his development, from the work of Olaus Roemer, of the thermometric scale that bears his name.
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Fahrenheit Fahr·en·heit (fār'ən-hīt')
adj.
Abbr. F
Of or relating to a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32°F and the boiling point as 212°F at one atmosphere of pressure.

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Relating to or based on a temperature scale that indicates the freezing point of water as 32° and the boiling point of water as 212° under standard atmospheric pressure.
Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel 1686-1736.  
German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer in 1714 and devised the Fahrenheit temperature scale.
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