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absolute temperature

British  

noun

  1. another name for thermodynamic temperature

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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PhD candidate Frederick Held adds: "Until now, we have been able to describe the trends, but it would be great if we were able to establish an absolute temperature value."

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024

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 turns out that the energy flux from a blackbody at temperature T is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Second, it’s not about the absolute temperature or the absolute amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

From Forbes • Jul. 28, 2013

Now let the stress be increased to S + dS while the extension is kept constant, and the absolute temperature raised from T to T + dT.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

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