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high temperature

n. the presence of heat [syn: hotness, heat] [ant: coldness]

Usage examples of "high temperature".

On a clear midsummer day along the Martian equator the afternoon high temperature might climb to seventy degrees Fahrenheit.

In other words, the surface of Venus would have to be kept at a high temperature by internal sources.

But the toil was awful, because the snow with the sun shining and a high temperature had become very wet and sticky, and again and again the sledge got one runner on harder snow than the other, canted on its side, and refused to move.

The material collected by the scoop undergoes nuclear fusion, and the reaction products are emitted at high temperature and velocity from the end of the cylinder opposite to the scoop, to propel the spacecraft.

The technical problems were all around the high temperature flux on the rocket's back end structure, which would have to radiate away excess heat between explosions.