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absolute temperature
  1. another name for thermodynamic temperature
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
ab′solute tem′perature scale′, [Thermodynam.]
  1. Thermodynamicstemperature (ab′solute tem′perature)as measured on a scale in which the hypothetical lowest limit of physical temperatures is assigned the value zero (ab′solute ze′ro), as the Kelvin scale. Also called ab′solute scale′. 

'absolute temperature' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
A - Curie's law - Gay-Lussac's law - Helmholtz function - Kelvin - Rankine - Stefan-Boltzmann law - T - absolute - absolute temperature scale - ideal gas law - universal gas constant - van der Waals' equation

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