WordNet
temperature scale
n. a system of measuring temperature
Usage examples of "temperature scale".
These fragile, crystalline, methane-based lifeforms would decompose at temperatures in excess of eighteen degrees above absolute zero and be instantly cremated if the temperature rose above minus one-twenty on the temperature scale in use in the Federation.
The controls seemed fine, but the temperature scale was different from the kind she was used to.
Between absolute zero, as indicated by the behavior of molecules, and fusion that exactly formed deuterium, the temperature scale was divided into degrees: twelve to the twelfth power.