Meaning

• 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.

• The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.