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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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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 calculation produces the result that the average kinetic energy of a molecule is 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

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

From black bodies, as we have seen, the total radiation varies as the fourth power of the absolute temperature.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth

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