temperature

A2 · Elementary Countable noun Medicine Informal

n. a body heat that is higher than normal because you are ill.

n. an elevated body temperature above the normal range, often used as a clinical indicator of infection or illness.

“The child has a temperature and needs to stay home from school.”

“If the patient develops a temperature exceeding thirty-nine degrees, the nursing staff must administer the prescribed antipyretic medication immediately.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate Countable noun Informal

n. the general feeling or mood of a group of people or a situation.

n. the prevailing mood, attitude, or level of tension within a particular group, situation, or political climate.

“The manager tried to take the temperature of the room before announcing the bad news.”

“Political analysts are attempting to gauge the temperature of the electorate following the recent controversial policy changes.”

C1 · Advanced Uncountable noun Computing Technical

n. a setting in computer programs that controls how creative or random the results are.

n. a hyperparameter used in machine learning to control the randomness or 'creativity' of a model's output.

“If you lower the temperature of the AI, its answers become more predictable.”

“Adjusting the temperature to a higher value encourages the language model to generate more diverse and less probable word sequences.”

C1 · Advanced Countable noun Computing

n. a setting in an AI model that controls how creative, unpredictable, or focused its answers are.

n. a hyperparameter in probabilistic sampling that scales logits before softmax to control the entropy of the output distribution.

“Lowering the temperature made the chatbot give very safe and predictable answers.”

“Setting temperature to zero induces greedy decoding, whereas higher values flatten the softmax distribution to increase generation diversity.”