This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
[L.] The amount or degree of heat in any person, place, or thing ; the condition which indicates whether heat will flow from one body to another, the body parting with heat being said to have a higher temperature, and the one receiving it a lower temperature than the other. In practice, temperature is measured by the expansion produced by heat in a liquid or a gas in a thermometer.
 
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