degree Rankine

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. A unit of thermodynamic temperature equal to 5/9 kelvin, and derived by offsetting the…

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

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