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TEMPERATURE CHANGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("temperature change" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "temperature change"):
advection ((meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties)
climate change; global climate change (a change in the world's climate)
convection (the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion)
chilling; cooling; temperature reduction (the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature)
heating; warming (the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature)
