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What does Fahrenheit mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Fahrenheit? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Describing a temperature scale originally defined as having 0 °F as the lowest temperature obtainable with a mixture of ice and salt, and 96 °F as the temperature of the human body, and now defined with 32 °F equal to 0 °C, and each degree Fahrenheit equal to 5/9 of a degree Celsius or 5/9 kelvin.
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But whether you calculate in Fahrenheit or Celsius, the overall winner is usually selected by a matter of shades and degrees.
What do you do when you have to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, or micrograms to hectograms?
But walking down the Strip and downtown in daytime during summer is not much fun as the temperature can easily reach over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Pressure from the miles-thick ice actually reduces the freezing point to 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
For example, a student knows that 32 degrees Fahrenheit is freezing and is equal to 0 degrees Celsius.
Venus, with a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide, has a surface temperature of 900 degrees Fahrenheit.

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