English Explanatory Dictionary

degree Rankine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A unit of thermodynamic temperature equal to 5/9 kelvin, and derived by offsetting the Fahrenheit scale to absolute zero.

Word forms

degree Rankine degrees Rankine

Etymology

Named after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed this scale in 1859.

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