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UK
/kˈɛlvɪn/
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[ US /ˈkɛɫvən, ˈkɛɫvɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈkɛɫvən, ˈkɛɫvɪn/ ]
NOUN
- British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea telegraphy (1824-1907)
How To Use Kelvin In A Sentence
- Kelvin surmounted this problem by running a single wire along his machine that went around each wheel, so that the combined effects of all wheels would be represented by the motion at the end of the wire.
- Lord Kelvin, who is President of the prestigious Royal Society once said that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible, and the Chairman of the major computer company, DEC, said that no-one would want a computer in their home.
- C 125 Jimenez, Kelvin STL R 6.02 - 19. 52$ 24.0 5.62 11 0 16.50 0 -3.38 .910 USATODAY.com
- The 13th CGPM (1967) adopted the name kelvin (symbol K) instead of "degree Kelvin" (symbol °K) and defined the unit of thermodynamic temperature as follows: Kelvin
- The Kelvin solution to the static linear elastic problem is used as the weighted function to derive the boundary integral equation for steady-state vibration problems.
- 7: Nice touch of science, but it'd have to be a pretty high room temperature for cesium, francium, gallium and rubidium to melt--the lowest melting point among them is francium's 300 degrees Kelvin, which is 80.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Archive 2007-04-01
- Celsius makes alot more sense to the rest of us, but we'll settle with kelvin :p Cassini Finds "Heat" and More Geysers on Enceladus | Universe Today
- The phrase is not stronger than that with which the Grammar of Science challenged the fight: Anything more hopelessly illogical than the statements with regard to Force and Matter current in elementary textbooks of science, it is difficult to imagine, opened Mr. Pearson, and the responsible author of the elementary textbook, as he went on to explain, was Lord Kelvin himself. The Grammar of Science (1903)
- The 13th CGPM changed the name to simply "kelvin" symbol K. Cool – Literally – Extrasolar Planet Imaged | Universe Today
- Kelvin didn't talk to those whom he shared this stuffy room with, neither did they talk much to him.