temperate

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(tĕm'pər-ĭt, tĕm'prĭt) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Exercising moderation and self-restraint: learned to be temperate in eating and drinking.
  2. Moderate in degree or quality; restrained: temperate criticism.
  3. Characterized by moderate temperatures, weather, or climate; neither hot nor cold.
  4. Biology. Of or relating to a virus that infects bacterial cells but rarely causes lysis: temperate bacteriophages.

[Middle English temperat, from Latin temperātus, from past participle of temperāre, to temper. See temper.]

temperately tem'per·ate·ly adv.
temperateness tem'per·ate·ness n.

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adjective

  1. Exercising moderation and self-restraint in appetites and behavior: abstemious, continent, sober. See restraint/unrestraint.
  2. Not excessive or extreme in amount, degree, or force: moderate, modest, reasonable. See big/small/amount, edge/center.
  3. Kept within sensible limits: conservative, discreet, moderate, reasonable, restrained. See plain/fancy, restraint/unrestraint.
  4. Free from extremes in temperature: mild, moderate. See edge/center.

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adj

Definition: calm, moderate
Antonyms: immoderate, stormy, violent

adj

Definition: controlled, sober
Antonyms: drunk, excessive, inebriated, uncontrolled

Describing those locations and climatic types falling between subtropical and subarctic.

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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Showing self-control. Also: Neither very hot nor very cold.

pronunciation Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

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Said of climate; includes consideration of temperature, humidity and wind speed, especially an absence of extremes of them. See also effective temperature.

  • t. index — comparable to comfort index in human meteorology.
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Temperateness (virology)

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In virology, temperate refers to the ability of some bacteriophages (notable coliphage λ) to display a lysogenic life cycle. Many (but not all) temperate phages can integrate their genomes into their host bacterium's chromosome, together becoming a lysogen as the phage genome becomes a prophage. A temperate phage is also able to undergo a productive, typically lytic life cycle, where the prophage is expressed, replicates the phage genome, and produces phage progeny, which then leave the bacterium. With phage the term virulent is often used as an antonym to temperate, but more strictly a virulent phage is one that has lost its ability to display lysogeny through mutation rather than a phage lineage with no genetic potential to ever display lysogeny (which more properly would be described as an obligately lytic phage)[1].

Notes

  1. ^ Barksdale, L., and S. B. Ardon. 1974. Persisting bacteriophage infections, lysogeny, and phage conversions. Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 28:265-299.



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Common misspelling(s) of temperate

  • temparate

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - tempereret (f.eks. klima)

Nederlands (Dutch)
gematigd

Français (French)
adj. - tempéré, modéré

Deutsch (German)
adj. - mäßig, gemäßigt, abstinent

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - μετριοπαθής, ήπιος, (μετεωρ.) εύκρατος

Italiano (Italian)
temperato, moderato

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - temperado, moderado, abstêmio

Русский (Russian)
(о температуре/ климате) умеренный, воздержанный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - templado

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - måttlig, måttfull, återhållsam, helnykter, tempererad, mild, sansad

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
温和的, 有节制的, 适度的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 溫和的, 有節制的, 適度的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 절제하는, 절주의, 온건한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 度を過ごさない, 温暖な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) غير متطرف, معتدل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מתון, מרוסן, מאופק, ממוזג (אקלים)‬


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