absolute temperature
Britishnoun
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Nor is the absolute temperature itself the key metric; what is important is whether the temperature surpasses records set in the same place over the last 72 years.
From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2023
Droegemeier was neither named for the Victorian physicist Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, nor for the eponymous Kelvin scale of absolute temperature.
From Slate • Aug. 3, 2018
It is an absolute temperature scale defined to have 0 K at the lowest possible temperature, called absolute zero.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Second, it’s not about the absolute temperature or the absolute amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
From Forbes • Jul. 28, 2013
The physical ideas are always set forth clearly and in such a manner that their quantitative representation is immediate: we shall have an example of this in the doctrine of absolute temperature.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew
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