temperature change

Heat level fluctuation

Temperature change is any increase or decrease in how hot or cold something is.

The term appears in climate discussions, where global temperature change refers to shifts in Earth's average temperatures over time.

In cooking, rapid temperature change can crack glass or toughen meat.

Physics uses the term precisely: The temperature change was 15 degrees Celsius.

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cool · thaw · greenhouse gases · thermal stress · ice age · sweat · solar radiation · volcanic activity · freeze · melt · shiver · acclimation · glacial retreat · goosebumps · body heat · urban heat islands · icy · sticky

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thermal variability

temperature changethermal equilibrium

Equal temperature throughout system

heat retention · thermoregulation

process dynamics

temperature changestasis

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stability · equilibrium · steady state · constancy · invariance

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