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>“Red,” for instance, is a translation of the phrase “620-750 nanometer wavelength.”

only sometimes.

Do you mean only sometimes, as in only when talking about electromagnetic waves? Or something else?

It can also mean a sum of wavelengths outside of that range whose average is in the range.

And the temperature example is even worse. Our subjective experience of temperature is only kind of correlated with what physicists call temperature.