temperature

1. (thermodynamics) A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents.Examples: "In consequence, macroscopic amounts of matter in thermal contact with one another tend to be at the same temperature, a fact of sufficient fundamental importance to merit belated designation as the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics."countableuncountable

2. (machine learning) A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.countableuncountable

3. (figurative, colloquial) The general mood.Examples: "But it is both easier and more accurate to take the industry's true temperature at small private gatherings like a conference organized by the Ziff Davis publishing company in northern California last week."; "[Stephen] Miller's words did not seem designed to lower the temperature."colloquialcountablefigurativelyuncountable

4. (obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.countableobsoleteuncountable

5. (now rare, archaic) The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.Examples: "Our intemperence it is that pulls so many several incurable diseases on our heads, that hastens old age, perverts our temperature, and brings upon us sudden death."; "[…]that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy foundation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind […]"; "Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature."archaiccountableuncountable