kelvin scale

1. 1.

   a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as 0 degrees; water freezes at 273.16 degrees and boils at 373.16 degrees

   Synonymsabsolute scale

   Broadertemperature scale

Questions about kelvin scale

What does kelvin scale mean?

kelvin scale means "a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as 0 degrees; water freezes at 273.16 degrees and boils at 373.16 degrees".

What is another word for kelvin scale?

Close synonyms include absolute scale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kelvin scale a common word?

kelvin scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.