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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

Ran•kine n.

William John Mac•quorn 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.

adj.

Thermodynamicspertaining to an absolute temperature scale (Ran′kine scale′) in which the degree intervals are equal to those of the Fahrenheit scale and in which 0° Rankine equals -459.7° Fahrenheit. Cf. absolute temperature scale, Kelvin (defs. 2, 3).

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Clausius cycle - Rankine cycle

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