Fahrenheit

:This article is about the temperature scale; see also Fahrenheit graphics API and Fahrenheit (video game).

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Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after the German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), who proposed it in 1724.

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In this scale, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees (this is written "32 ?F"), and the boiling point is 212 degrees Fahrenheit, placing the boiling and melting points of water 180 degrees apart. Thus the unit of this scale, a degree Fahrenheit, is 5/9ths of a kelvin (which is a degree Celsius), and minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to minus 40 degrees Celsius.

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Fahrenheit graphics API: Fahrenheit was an effort to create a unified high-level API for 3D computer graphics. It was designed by Microsoft, SGI and HP to unify Direct3D and OpenGL. Much of the original Fahrenheit project was abandoned, and Microsoft and SGI eventually gave up on attempts to work together. In the end only t...

Temperature: Temperature is the physical property of a system which underlies the common notions of "hot" and "cold"; the material with the higher temperature is said to be hotter. Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample of matter. In other words, temperature is a meas...

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Fahrenheit related Images and Photos (experimental)

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