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absolute temperature

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noun

  1. another name for thermodynamic temperature

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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 used extensively in scientific work because a number of physical quantities, such as the volume of an ideal gas, are directly related 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

Its zero, called the "absolute zero," is 461� below the zero of Fahrenheit, or 493� below the freezing point of water; and the degree of heat measured by it is termed the "absolute temperature."

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various