temperature spike
Abrupt thermal surge
A temperature spike is a sudden, sharp increase in temperature.
The term applies across contexts: a patient's fever spiking overnight, an engine overheating, or climate data showing abrupt warming.
Unlike gradual rises, a spike suggests something dramatic and often alarming: The temperature spike triggered the cooling system's alarm.
- feverElevated body temperature
- high feverElevated body temperature, alarming
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- heat waveExtended extreme warmth
- heatwaveProlonged abnormally high temperatures
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- feverfever, high fever, febrile, low-grade fever, feverish
- heatheat transfer, thermal energy, heatwave, radiation, convection
- temperature changesheat waves, cold snaps, freeze-thaw, warming, cooling
- weather recordsall-time high, hottest day, coldest day, snowfall record
- Menstruationperiod, menstruation, periods, cycle, menstrual
- thermal disordersheatstroke, heat stroke, heat exhaustion, hypothermia, hyperthermia
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