hottest temperature
Peak thermal reading
Hottest temperature refers to the highest thermal reading in a given context—whether a weather forecast, a scientific measurement, or a competition between locations.
Phoenix recorded the hottest temperature in the country yesterday.
The phrase often appears in record-keeping: the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
In casual use, it can highlight extremes: That was the hottest temperature I've ever experienced.
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- blazingBurning very brightly
- swelteringExtremely hot, uncomfortably so
- boilingLiquid vaporization temperature
- boiling pointVaporization threshold
inferno · heat wave · heatwave · furnace · searing · white hot · red hot · blistering · molten · lava · sun · fever · record-breaking · all-time high · desert · sauna · thermometer · mercury
- recordsbirth records, world record, record, Guinness, documents
hottest temperaturecoldest temperature
Minimum possible heat level
lowest temperature · absolute zero · coldest · freezing point · record low
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