temperature

température

La mesure qui indique à quel point une chose est chaude ou froide.

En anglais simple : How hot or cold something is.

• The temperature is twenty degrees.
• Keep the milk at a low temperature.
• Temperatures fell sharply during the night.

Comment l'utiliser : the temperature of something (Check the temperature of the water first.)

Expressions courantes : room temperature, high temperature, temperature of something

fièvre

Une température du corps supérieure à la normale, généralement à cause d'une maladie.

En anglais simple : A body heat level that is higher than normal, usually because you are ill.

• The baby has a temperature.
• I stayed home because I was running a temperature.
• Has your temperature gone down yet?

Synonymes : fever

Expressions courantes : have a temperature, run a temperature, high temperature

température

Une grandeur physique liée à l'énergie des particules en mouvement dans une substance.

En anglais simple : A physical measure related to how much energy the moving particles in a substance have.

• Temperature is measured in kelvin.
• The experiment linked temperature to the motion of molecules.
• Two systems in thermal equilibrium have the same temperature.

Comment l'utiliser : the temperature of something (The temperature of the gas increased as its particles gained energy.)

Expressions courantes : absolute temperature, thermodynamic temperature, temperature of something