Meanings
noundegree of frost (plural degrees of frost)
plural degrees of frost
- datedA temperature interval of one degree below the freezing point of water.
It was seventy-five below zero. Since the freezing-point is thirty-two above zero, it meant that one hundred and seven degrees of frost obtained.
1908, Jack London, To Build a Fire
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