degree Rankine
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed this scale in 1859.
Noun[edit]
degree 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[edit]
unit of temperature
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