What is temperature a measure of?

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What is temperature a measure of?

Answer 1

Technically, temperature is the measure of the amount of energy contained within an object.  This should not be confused with heat, however.  Heat is the amount of energy in an object PLUS how well that energy can be transferred to another object.  Usually, the denser an object, the more heat it can have.  That is why if you stand in 110 degree air, it is tolerable.  But if you step into 110 degree water, it's not so tolerable.  Both the air and the water have the same temperature, but the water is denser and thus can transfer it's energy more efficiently, thus it has more heat.

Answer 2

Temperature is the degree of hotness of a body.It is defined as the condition which determines the flow of heat from one substance to another.Heat is a form of energy and temperature is the factor which effects the availability of this energy.

Answer 3

Intuitively, temperature is a measure of how hot or cold something is, although the most immediate way in which we can measure this, by feeling it, is unreliable, resulting in the phenomenon of felt air temperature, which can differ at varying degrees from actual temperature. On the molecular level, temperature is the result of the motion of particles which make up a substance. Temperature increases as the energy of this motion increases. The motion may be the translational motion of the particle, or the internal energy of the particle due to molecular vibration or the excitation of an electron energy level. Although very specialized laboratory equipment is required to directly detect the translational thermal motions, thermal collisions by atoms or molecules with small particles suspended in a fluid produces Brownian motion that can be seen with an ordinary microscope. The thermal motions of atoms are very fast and temperatures close to absolute zero are required to directly observe them. For instance, when scientists at the NIST achieved a record-setting cold temperature of 700 nK (1 nK = 10−9 K) in 1994, they used optical lattice laser equipment to adiabatically cool caesium atoms. They then turned off the entrapment lasers and directly measured atom velocities of 7 mm per second in order to calculate their temperature.

Answer 4

its a measure of how hot or cold something is