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Categories: Scales of temperature, 1859 introductions

Rankine scale degree Rankine rankine DegRa degrees Rankine

A scale of absolute temperature in Fahrenheit degrees; the freezing point of water is 491.69 degrees and the boiling point of water is 671.69 degrees WordNet 3.0

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A scale of absolute temperature in Fahrenheit degrees; the freezing point of water is 491.69 degrees and the boiling point of water is 671.69 degrees WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The Rankine scale is an absolute scale of thermodynamic temperature named after the University of Glasgow engineer and physicist Macquorn Rankine, who proposed it in 1859. Wikipedia

An absolute-temperature scale related to the Fahrenheit scale Wikipedia Disambiguation

Absolute temperature scale using Fahrenheit degrees Wikidata

Temperature unit Wikidata

A scale for measuring temperature, with zero defined as absolute zero and degrees having the same measure as the degree Fahrenheit of the Fahrenheit scale. Wiktionary

A unit of thermodynamic temperature equal to 5/9 kelvin, and derived by offsetting the Fahrenheit scale to absolute zero. Wiktionary

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temperature scale

HAS PART

Rankine scale

PART OF

Rankine scale

MEASURED PHYSICAL QUANTITY

temperature

MEASUREMENT SCALE

Rankine scale

NAMED AFTER