coldest temperature
Lowest possible reading
The coldest temperature is the lowest point on a temperature scale within a given context—a day, a season, a location, or a measurement system.
In everyday use, it describes weather extremes: The coldest temperature on record for January.
In physics, absolute zero is the theoretical coldest temperature possible, where molecular motion stops.
- absolute zeroTheoretical minimum temperature
- freezingExtremely cold
- freezing pointTemperature of phase transition
- subzeroBelow the freezing point
- below zeroTemperature beneath freezing
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- recordsbirth records, world record, record, Guinness, documents
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Greatest measured warmth
highest temperature · peak temperature · extreme heat · scorching heat · boiling point
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Intense, burning temperatures
white heat · burning hot · inferno · blistering · molten
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