Fahrenheit

(adjective)

An unit of measurement for temperature used most commonly in the United States.

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Examples of Fahrenheit in the following topics:

  • Temperature

    • The dawn of the 18th century saw great change in thermometers, thanks to the work of Isaac Newton, Anders Celsius, and Daniel Fahrenheit.
    • Fahrenheit was working with tubes filled with mercury, which has a very high coefficient of thermal expansion.
    • This, combined with the quality and accuracy of Fahrenheit's work, led to much greater sensitivity, and his thermometer was standardized against a brine solution and universally adopted, with the Fahrenheit scale being named in his honor.