degree Rankine

短语

词形变化

degrees Rankine 复数 degrees Rankine

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

词源

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

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