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degree rankine

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.53 in modern English

Syllables
de-gree rank-ine
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

degrees Rankine (plural)

Phrases

Rankine scale

Frequently Paired Words

Rankine scale

Questions

What does degree rankine mean?
A unit of thermodynamic temperature equal to 5/9 kelvin, and derived by offsetting the Fahrenheit scale to absolute zero.
Where does degree rankine come from?
Named after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed this scale in 1859.

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