Glossary of terms

A temperature is an objective comparative measurement of hot or cold. It is measured by a thermometer. Several scales and units exist for measuring temperature, the most common being Celsius (denoted °C; formerly called centigrade), Fahrenheit (denoted °F), and, especially in science, Kelvin (denoted K).

A sort or category of data that can be represented by Python. Any variable we use has a type of: string, integer, long, floating point, list, tuple, or dictionary.