Fahrenheit

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mid 18th century: named after Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), German physicist.


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From German Fahrenheit, named after Prussian scientist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.


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Fahrenheit (adj.)

temperature scale, 1753, named for Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), Prussian physicist who proposed the scale in 1714. The "zero" in it is arbitrary, based on the lowest temperature observed by him during the winter of 1709 in Danzig. An abstract surname meaning literally "experience."