temp
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/tɛmp/
English
Definitions
noun
- Abbreviation of tempore.
noun
- A temporary employee, usually in an office.
- A temporary storage location.
verb
- To work as a temporary employee.
noun
- A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.“The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.”
- An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.“You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.”
- 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.
adjective
- 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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Synonyms
temporary workertimeactingsubstitutetemporaltemperatureinterimstormtemporarilytemporaryunaccompaniedtemperaturestransitoryimpermanentprovisionaltransient