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Rankine scale
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English
Etymology
Named after the Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) who proposed the scale in 1859.
Proper noun
- 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.
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