degree Rankine
English
editEtymology
editNamed after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed this scale in 1859.
Noun
editdegree Rankine (plural degrees Rankine)
- A unit of thermodynamic temperature equal to 5/9 kelvin, and derived by offsetting the Fahrenheit scale to absolute zero.
Translations
editunit of temperature
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