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temp

/tɛmp/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Abbreviation of tempore.
  2. A temporary employee, usually in an office.
  3. A temporary storage location.
  4. To work as a temporary employee.
  5. A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
  6. An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
  7. 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
  8. The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
  9. The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
  10. Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
  11. Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

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