temp

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɛmp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɛmp/, [tʰɛmp]
• Rhymes: -ɛmp

temp

1. temperature
2. temporary
3. tempore

temp (plural temps)

1. A temporary employee, usually in an office.
2. (computing, informal, chiefly attributive) A temporary storage location.
   • 2001, John Y. Hsu, Computer Architecture: Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware

     Consequently, the unit executes and places the result in a temp register.

   • 2014, Andrew W. Appel, Program Logics for Certified Compilers (page 162)

     That is, r-values include numeric constants, nonaddressable local variables (temps) […]

temp (third-person singular simple present temps, present participle temping, simple past and past participle temped)

1. To work as a temporary employee.
   • 2007, The Savages, 01:24:50

     --I temp for money, but it's not my main thing. I write plays.

• EMT-P, Emp't

temp

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of tempt
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of tempt

• (Sursilvan) temps
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) taimp
• (Sutsilvan) tains

From Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European *tempos (“stretch”), from the root *temp- (“to stretch, string”).

temp m (plural temps)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) time

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) ura
• (Surmiran) oura