What is temperature?

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What is temperature?
 

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How hot something is?

A simple definition would be the amount of motion of atoms, a strict definition gets complicated.
 


sr_philosophy said:
What is temperature?

An object's temperature measures the average kinetic energy of its "jiggling" atoms or molecules. Average because some 'jiggle' fast and some 'jiggle' slow.
 

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