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
This is because the average kinetic energy of molecules, 1mv2 , is proportional to 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
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in whose honour the absolute temperature scale is now named, was among the most distinguished scientists of the late 19th century.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2013
The formula PV = RT shows that for a given mass, with the same volume, the pressure increases in proportion to the absolute temperature.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
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