degree Fahrenheit
unit of temperature
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Summary
degree Fahrenheit is an unit of thermodynamic temperature[1].
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit[2]
- Instance of: UCUM derived unit[3], unit without standard conversion to SI[4]
- Measured physical quantity: Fahrenheit temperature[5]
- Named after: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit[6]
- Said to be the same as: degree Rankine[7]
- Unicode character: ℉[8]
- Measurement scale: Fahrenheit scale[9]
- Different from: french degree[10], degree Fahrenheit difference[11], Fahrenheit scale[12]
- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent: wd:Q42289 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)[13]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14]
- Unit symbol: °F[15], ℉[16]
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Influence
Things named for degree Fahrenheit include Fahrenheit[17], a boy band[18], in Taiwan[19], founded in 2005[20].
Why It Matters
Entities named for it include Fahrenheit[17], a boy band[18], in Taiwan[19], founded in 2005[20].