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degree-day

degree-day is the alternative form of degree day.

Meaning of degree day

Noun

degree day (plural degree days)

  1. A measure of heating or cooling, computed as the integral of a function of time that generally varies with temperature.
  2. A unit used in estimating the fuel consumption for a building; equal to the number of degrees that the mean temperature, for a 24-hour day, is below the base temperature, often 65F.

Forms of degree-day

pluraldegree-days

Questions about degree-day

What is degree-day the alternative form of?
Degree-day is the alternative form of degree day.

Words near degree-day in the dictionary

  1. degree place
  2. degree places
  3. degree Rankine
  4. degree sequence
  5. degree sequences
  6. degree-day
  7. degree-days
  8. degreed
  9. degreeless
  10. degreelessness
  11. degreen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: degree-day (page history and authors); degree day (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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