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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

The spontaneity of a process, as reflected in the arithmetic sign of its free energy change, is then determined by the signs of the enthalpy and entropy changes and, in some cases, the absolute temperature.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

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

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

From Forbes • Jul. 28, 2013

T2  =  absolute temperature of steam at exhaust pressure.

From Steam Engines Machinery's Reference Series, Number 70 by Anonymous