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Definition of Degree Fahrenheit
1. Noun. A degree on the Fahrenheit scale of temperature.
Definition of Degree Fahrenheit
1. Noun. a degree on the Fahrenheit temperature scale ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Degree Fahrenheit
Literary usage of Degree Fahrenheit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Treatise on Physics, Experimental and Applied by Adolphe Ganot (1893)
"... and thus I degree Centigrade is equal to !f of a degree Fahrenheit, and,
conversely, I degree Fahrenheit is equal to jj of a degree Centigrade. ..."
2. Steam, Its Generation and Use by Babcock & Wilcox Company, Steven C. Stultz, John B. Litto (1913)
"Unit Water Temperature Rise I B. tu 1 Pound 1 degree Fahrenheit 1 Calorie I
Kilogram 1 Degree centigrade But 1 kilogram =2.2046 pounds and 1 degree ..."
3. Arithmetic of Pharmacy by Alviso Burdett Stevens (1913)
"One degree Re'aumur is equal to £ of a degree Fahrenheit, or, -f of a degree
Centigrade. 5.—To CONVERT .FAHRENHEIT TO CENTIGRADE 1.—Example. ..."
4. Select Methods in Chemical Analysis: (chiefly Inorganic) by William Crookes (1886)
"Each degree Fahrenheit is divided into 5 parts, and each degree Centigrade into
9 parts, which are, intended to represent fractions of a degree ..."
5. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, René Feret, William Barnard Fuller, Frank Pape McKibben, Spencer Baird Newberry, Sanford Eleazer Thompson (1909)
"... \M:r each degree Fahrenheit. He experimented with Portland cement concrete
mixed in proportions 1:2:4 broken stone and 1:2:4 gravel. ..."
6. Natural Philosophy for General Readers and Young Persons by Adolphe Ganot, Edmund Atkinson (1872)
"The remainder in the example is thus 63, and as I degree Fahrenheit is equal to
f of a degree Centigrade, 63 degrees are equal to 63 x | or 35 degrees ..."
7. Theory of Heat by James Clerk Maxwell (1904)
"Now KT is the mechanical equivalent of the heat required to raise one pound of
air one degree Fahrenheit without any change of volume, ..."
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