2. countable noun. A thesis is a long piece of writing based on your own ideas and research that you do as part of a university degree, especially a higher degree such as a PhD. He was awarded his PhD for a thesis on industrial robots.
In July 1913, observers in Furnace Creek, CaliforniaâDeath Valleyâwatched the thermometer reach 56.7Â°C (134Â°F) and declared it to be the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth. But just nine years later, on September 13, 1922, a weather station in El Azizia, Libya, recorded a temperature of 58.0Â°C (136.4Â°F). According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), that remains the highest air temperature ever measured.
The highest temperature ever recorded in the United States was  134Â°F (56.7Â°C) on July 10, 1913 in Death Valley, California. That  is also the highest temperature ever rec â¦ orded in the Western  Hemisphere. The world's highest official temperature is 136Â°F  recorded at El Azizia, Libya, on Sept. 13, 1922.