Question

What property of matter does temperature measure?

Answer 1

Hint: Thermal expansion is the tendency of matter to change its shape, area, volume, and density in response to a change in temperature, usually not including phase transitions.

Complete answer:
As we know, any particle or object that occupies space and has some mass is called matter. Thermal expansion is the change in size of an object as its temperature changes. The property of matter which temperature measures is the degree of hotness and coldness. It also measures that when the matter will change its form due to the effect of temperature example if we take water which is in liquid state and we drops the temperature to zero degree Celsius it will change its state to liquid to solid and if we increase the temperature then it will convert into water vapour which is in gaseous state, these changes are a good example of effects of change of temperature. In terms of matter itself, temperature is directly proportional to the average kinetic energy of particles.
If you add energy to particles - heating the object up, you are increasing the object's temperature. As a result, the object will eventually change to a state where the particles are able to "fly" past one another.

Note:
We should remember that the thermal expansion actually changes the space between particles of a substance, which further changes the volume of the substance while negligibly changing its mass. There are different types of matter present in solid, liquid and gases.