temp
/tɛmp/ · noun
Meaning
- Abbreviation of tempore.
- A temporary employee, usually in an office.
- A temporary storage location.
- To work as a temporary employee.
- A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
- An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
- 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. http//arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055
- The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
- The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
- Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
- Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.
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