absolute temperature scale
- absolute temperature scale
ab′solute tem′perature scale`
n.
thr a scale for measuring temperature in which the hypothetical lowest limit is assigned the value zero, designated absolute zero, as the Kelvin or Rankine scale
From formal English to slang.
2014.
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