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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fahrenheit \Fah"ren*heit\a. [G.]
Conforming to the scale used by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in
the graduation of his thermometer; of or relating to
Fahrenheit's thermometric scale. -- n. The Fahrenheit
termometer or scale.
Note: The Fahrenheit thermometer is so graduated that the
freezing point of water is at 32 degrees above the zero
of its scale, and the boiling point at 212 degrees
above. It is commonly used in the United States and in
England.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fahrenheit
adj : of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of
water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212
degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure [syn: {f}, {Fahr}]
[ant: {celsius}]
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