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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

Reconnaissance satellites can detect buildings, vehicles, and even individual humans by their infrared emissions, whose power radiation is proportional to the fourth power of the absolute temperature.

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

If hot glowing stars follow the same law as black bodies at lower temperatures, the emission of electrons, like the emission of other kinds of energy, varies as the fourth power of the absolute temperature.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth

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