Heat vs. Temperature
People often use the terms heat and temperature interchangeably without actually understanding between both of them. It should be kept noted that both these concepts are studied in the science, and are interrelated to each other. In other words, we can say that temperature is the subset of the heat; this can be further elaborated by defining both these concepts. Heat is the overall energy, either kinetic or potential energy possessed by the body. On the other hand, the temperature is the measure of the heat intensity present in the body. The transfer of heat energy from the one body to the other takes place due to the difference in temperature of the bodies. It should be kept noted here that heat energy travels from a hotter object to the cooler object.
Key Differences
The heat is the measure of both the energy’s within an object, either kinetic or potential energy. Contrary to this, the temperature is the measure of the average kinetic energy possessed by the object.
The calorimeter is used to measure the heat of the object, whereas thermometer is used to measure the temperature.
Heat is the total amount of energy i.e. kinetic and potential energy possessed by the body. On the other hand, the temperature is the measure of heat intensity of the body/object.
The heat transmission takes from hotter object to the cooler object, whereas temperature rises or falls with a change in the heat as it is directly dependent on heat.
The SI unit of heat is Joules while SI unit of temperatures is Kelvin.
Harlon Moss
Aug 11, 2017
Heat is denoted using the symbol ‘Q,' whereas symbol ‘T’ represents the temperature.
Harlon Moss
Aug 11, 2017
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Comparison Chart
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Heat is the total amount of energy i.e. kinetic and potential energy possessed by the body.
The temperature is the measure of heat intensity of the body/object.
Measure
The heat is the measure of both the energy’s within an object, either kinetic or potential.
The temperature is the measure of the average kinetic energy possessed by the object.
Transfer
The heat transmission takes from hotter object to the cooler object.
Temperature rises or falls with a change in the heat as it is directly dependent on heat.
SI Unit
Joules
Kelvin
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Heat and Temperature Definitions
Heat
A form of energy associated with the kinetic energy of atoms or molecules and capable of being transmitted through solid and fluid media by conduction, through fluid media by convection, and through empty space by radiation.
Temperature
The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment.
Heat
The transfer of energy from one body to another as a result of a difference in temperature or a change in phase.
Temperature
A measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample of matter, expressed in terms of units or degrees designated on a standard scale.
Heat
The sensation or perception of such energy as warmth or hotness.
Temperature
The degree of heat in the body of a living organism, usually about 37.0°C (98.6°F) in humans.
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Heat
An abnormally high bodily temperature, as from a fever.
Temperature
An abnormally high condition of body heat caused by illness; a fever.
Heat
The condition of being hot.
Temperature
A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
The most accurate way to take your temperature is by sticking a thermometer up your butt.
Heat
A degree of warmth or hotness
The burner was on low heat.
Temperature
An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
Heat
The warming of a room or building by a furnace or another source of energy
The house was cheap to rent, but the heat was expensive.
Temperature
(thermodynamics) A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. [http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055]
Heat
A furnace or other source of warmth in a room or building
The heat was on when we returned from work.
Temperature
(obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
Heat
A hot season; a spell of hot weather.
Temperature
The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
Heat
Intensity, as of passion, emotion, color, appearance, or effect.
Temperature
Constitution; state; degree of any quality.
The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.
Memory depends upon the consistence and the temperature of the brain.
Heat
The most intense or active stage
The heat of battle.
Temperature
Freedom from passion; moderation.
In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth,Most goodly temperature you may descry.
Heat
A burning sensation in the mouth produced by spicy flavoring in food.
Temperature
Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or of boiling.
Heat
Estrus.
Temperature
Mixture; compound.
Made a temperature of brass and iron together.
Heat
One of a series of efforts or attempts.
Temperature
The degree of heat of the body of a living being, esp. of the human body; also (Colloq.), loosely, the excess of this over the normal (of the human body 98°-99.5° F., in the mouth of an adult about 98.4°).
Heat
Sports & Games One round of several in a competition, such as a race.
Temperature
The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)
Heat
A preliminary contest held to determine finalists.
Temperature
The somatic sensation of cold or heat
Heat
(Informal) Pressure; stress.
Heat
An intensification of police activity in pursuing criminals.
Heat
The police. Used with the.
Heat
(Slang) Adverse comments or hostile criticism
Heat from the press forced the senator to resign.
Heat
(Slang) A firearm, especially a pistol.
Heat
To make warm or hot.
Heat
To excite the feelings of; inflame.
Heat
(Physics) To increase the heat energy of (an object).
Heat
To become warm or hot.
Heat
To become excited emotionally or intellectually.
Heat
(uncountable) Thermal energy.
This furnace puts out 5000 BTUs of heat.
That engine is really throwing off some heat.
Removal of heat from the liquid caused it to turn into a solid.
Heat
(uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
Stay out of the heat of the sun!
Heat
(uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
The chili sauce gave the dish heat.
Heat
(uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
It's easy to make bad decisions in the heat of the moment.
Heat
(uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable.
Heat
The police.
The heat! Scram!
Heat
One or more firearms.
Heat
A fastball.
The catcher called for the heat, high and tight.
Heat
(uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
The male canines were attracted by the female in heat.
Heat
In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
Heat
(countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
The runner had high hopes, but was out of contention after the first heat.
Heat
A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
Heat
(countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
I can make a scroll like that in a single heat.
Heat
(countable) A hot spell.
The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat.
Heat
(uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
I'm freezing; could you turn on the heat?
Heat
(uncountable) The output of a heating system.
During the power outage we had no heat because the controls are electric.
Older folks like more heat than the young.
Heat
(countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
Heat
To get a negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character).
Heat
(transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot often with "up".
I'll heat up the water.
Heat
(intransitive) To become hotter.
There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.
Heat
To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
Heat
To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
Heat
To arouse, to excite (sexually).
The massage heated her up.
Heat
A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode of motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.
Heat
The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.
Heat
High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc.
Else how had the world . . . Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat!
Heat
Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise.
It has raised . . . heats in their faces.
The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white-flame heat, and a sparkling or welding heat.
Heat
A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.
Heat
A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three.
Many causes . . . for refreshment betwixt the heats.
[He] struck off at one heat the matchless tale of "Tam o' Shanter."
Heat
Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party.
Heat
Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation.
Heat
Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency; as, in the heat of argument.
With all the strength and heat of eloquence.
Heat
Sexual excitement in animals; readiness for sexual activity; estrus or rut.
Heat
Fermentation.
Heat
Strong psychological pressure, as in a police investigation; as, when they turned up the heat, he took it on the lam.
Heat
To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.
Heat me these irons hot.
Heat
To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.
Heat
To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
A noble emulation heats your breast.
Heat
To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.
Heat
To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.
Heat
Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot.
Heat
A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
Heat
The presence of heat
Heat
The sensation caused by heat energy
Heat
Intense passion or emotion
Heat
Applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
Heat
A preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
Heat
Utility to warm a building;
The heating system wasn't working
They have radiant heating
Heat
Make hot or hotter;
Heat the soup
Heat
Provide with heat;
Heat the house
Heat
Arouse or excite feelings and passions;
The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor
The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world
Wake old feelings of hatred
Heat
Gain heat or get hot;
The room heated up quickly
What is Heat?
Heat is the form of energy, which is the measure of the total amount of energy possessed by the object. The heat energy gets higher or lower all because of the movement of smaller particles like atoms, ions or molecules within the body. As we know that the object either solid, liquid or gas comprises of microscopic particles like atoms, molecules or ions; the movement of such particles make up the total heat energy of the body. When we talk about the energy in the case of heat; it is the total energy of the body i.e. kinetic energy and the potential energy. The heat energy gets transferred from one object to the other object due to the difference in the temperatures. The heat always flows from the hotter object to the cooler object. The measurement of heat energy is done in the units like calorie or joules using the calorie meter or any other similar device. The exchange of heat can mainly take place through three ways: conduction, reduction, and radiation. The transmission of heat energy taking place between two bodies without the movement of the material is known as the conduction. On the other hand, the heat energy taking place due to the movement of the subatomic particle is known as the convection.
What is Temperature?
Temperature is the measure of the heat intensity of the body; in other words, we can say that temperature is the average kinetic energy possessed by the body. It should be noted that the temperature is the subset of the heat and it is directly dependent on the amount of heat. It can be further expected, when the object is heated the temperature of the object increases, and when the object is cooled the temperature decreases. The temperature is the average amount of kinetic energy possessed by the body; it has nothing to do with the size and the type of the body. Other than the average measure of kinetic energy, the temperature also evaluates the speed of the atoms and molecules of the object. The thermometer is the apparatus used to measure the temperature, and it is denoted using the units like Kelvin, Fahrenheit, and Celsius.
