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.
A reading of 136Â°F, observed at Azizia (elevation about 380 ft, Tripolitania, Libya, North Africa) on September 13, 1922, is generally accepted as the world's highest temperature recorded under standard conditions. The highest temperature ever observed in Canada was 115Â°F at Gleichen, Alberta on July 28, 1903. A high of 120Â°F or higher has been recorded on all the continents except Antarctica, where the high is only 58.3Â°F.