Rankine

Definition: Rankine

Rankine

Noun

1. A unit of temperature on the Rankine scale.

"Rankine" is a common misspelling or typo for: Rankin, ranking, rankling.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Rankine

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
RATA	English	Rankine cycle air turboaccelerator	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: Rankine

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Rankine is a temperature scale that, like kelvin, sets zero at absolute zero, but uses Fahrenheit degrees. It is named after Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed it in 1859.

A difference of 1 degree R. is equal to a difference of 1 degree F, but absolute zero is 0 degrees R, or -459.67 degrees F. Thus:

To convert from Fahrenheit to Rankine, add 459.67.
To convert from Rankine to Fahrenheit, subtract 459.67.
To convert from kelvin to Rankine, multiply by 1.8.
To convert from Rankine to kelvin, divide by 1.8.

Other temperature scales include Fahrenheit (1724), Réaumur (1730), Celsius (1742), and Kelvin (1862).

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rankine."

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Crosswords: Rankine

English words defined with "Rankine": Rankine scale. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Rankine": absolute temperature scale ♦ degrees Rankine ♦ Kelvin temperature scale ♦ Rankine cycle, Rankine temperature scale, Rankine's theory ♦ Salt Gradient Solar Ponds, Solar Thermal Parabolic Dishes ♦ thermodynamic temperature scale. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Rankine

Domain	Title
Books	Developments in Soil Mechanics: The Second Ten Rankine Lectures (reference) Energy Conservation in Industry: Combustion, Heat Recovery and Rankine Machines (reference) Landmarks in Soil Mechanics: The Rankine Lectures 1981-1990 (reference) Power Engineering and Technology: Energy Efficient Use of Working Fluids, Alternative Processes, Heat Pumps and Organic Rankine Cycle (reference) Rankine : William John Macquorn Rankine (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Rankine

"Rankine" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rankine" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	6	143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Rankine

Expression using "Rankine": Rankine scale. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rankine

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
ciclo rankine	23
cycle rankine	15
ciclo de rankine	12
rankine	12
cycle energy rankine	5
john rankine	4
rankine temperature	3
photography rankine	3
rankine turbina	2
ciclo ciclo de rankine rankine	2
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Modern Translations: Rankine

Language		Translations for "Rankine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		R (degree Rankine, revolution), grad Rankine (degree Rankine). (various references)

Dutch		graad Rankine (degree Rankine). (various references)

Finnish		Rankinen aste (degree Rankine). (various references)

French		R (degree Rankine, radicals), degré Rankine (degree Rankine). (various references)

German		R (break contact, degree Rankine, letter, normal, normally closed, radicals, range, resultant linear density), Grad Rankine (degree Rankine). (various references)

Greek		βαθμός Rankine (degree Rankine). (various references)

Italian		R (degree Rankine, r, r or rev. 2, radicals, resultant linear density, revolution), grado Rankine (degree Rankine). (various references)

Pig Latin		ankineray.(various references)

Portuguese		grau Rankine (degree Rankine). (various references)

Spanish		grado Rankine (degree Rankine). (various references)

Swedish		R (degree Rankine), grad Rankine (degree Rankine). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Rankine

Derivations
	Words containing "Rankine": crankiness, crankinesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Rankine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-k-n-n-r"
	-1 letter: inaner, narine.
	-2 letters: inane, inker, inner, reink, renin.
	-3 letters: airn, akin, earn, kain, kane, karn, keir, kern, kier, kina, kine, kirn, knar, nark, near, nine, rain, rake, raki, rani, rank, rein, rink.
	-4 letters: ain, air, ane, ani, are, ark, ear, era, ern, ink, inn, ire, irk, kae, kea, ken, kin, kir, nae, nan, ran, rei, ria, rin.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, an, ar, en, er, in, ka, na, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-k-n-n-r"
	+1 letter: ninebark.
	+2 letters: cankering, darkening, hankering, harkening, interbank, nicknamer, ninebarks, spinnaker.
	+3 letters: barkentine, crankiness, hearkening, nicknamers, rewakening, spinnakers.
	+4 letters: antiwrinkle, barkentines, bedarkening, franklinite, prefranking, reawakening, undertaking, undrinkable.
	+5 letters: benchmarking, crankinesses, enterokinase, frankincense, franklinites, keratinizing, kindergarten, prankishness, undertakings.
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