basal body temperature method of family planning
basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
measurement
measuring
measure
mensuration | the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule, the measurements were carefully done, his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate |
| mental measurement | a generic term used to cover any application of measurement techniques to the quantification of mental functions |
| temperature | the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) |
| absolute temperature | temperature measured on the absolute scale |
Curie temperature
Curie point | the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic |
| room temperature | the normal temperature of room in which people live |
basal body temperature
basal temperature | body temperature in the morning before rising or moving about or eating anything |
body temperature
blood heat | temperature of the body, normally . F or C in humans, usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health |
coldness
cold
low temperature
frigidity frigidness | the absence of heat, the coldness made our breath visible, come in out of the cold, cold is a vasoconstrictor |
hotness
heat high temperature | the presence of heat |
| temperature | the somatic sensation of cold or heat |
cooling
chilling
temperature reduction | the process of becoming cooler, a falling temperature |
| temperature change | a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes |
system of measurement
metric | a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic |
unit of measurement
unit | any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange, the dollar is the United States unit of currency, a unit of wheat is a bushel, change per unit volume |
| temperature unit | a unit of measurement for temperature |
| standard temperature | exactly zero degrees centigrade |
scale scale of measurement
graduated table
ordered series | an ordered reference standard, judging on a scale of to |
| temperature scale | a system of measuring temperature |
gauge
standard of measurement | accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared |
| temperature gradient | change in temperature as a function of distance (especially altitude) |