degree Rankine

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degree Rankine

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Named after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed this scale in 1859.

noun degrees Rankine

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

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@misc{degree_rankine_2026,
  title = {degree Rankine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/degree%20rankine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}