Fahrenheit

Translate Fahrenheit | into Italian | into Spanish

adjective

[postpositive when used with a numeral]

• of or denoting a scale of temperature on which water freezes at 32° and boils at 212° under standard conditions.

noun

(also Fahrenheit scale)

• the Fahrenheit scale of temperature.

Origin:

mid 18th century: named after Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), German physicist

Fahrenheit should be spelled with a capital F, then -ahr-; the ending is -heit. It is named after the German physicist Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit.