From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishFahrenheitFah‧ren‧heit /ˈfærənhaɪt/ noun [uncountable] (written abbreviation F) TMTa scale of temperature in which water freezes at 32° and boils at 212° 72° Fahrenheit (=72 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale) —Fahrenheit adjective
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Fahrenheit• It's hot out there, several million degrees Fahrenheit.• The window is closed and the temperature pretty steady at sixty-five Fahrenheit.• In both mental and written parallel tests more pupils were able to give the temperature in Celsius than in Fahrenheit.Origin Fahrenheit (1700-1800) Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), German scientist